Cattle Ranches in Brazil
This article is from October 16 and it presents information about how people are clearing forests for cattle ranches, mining operations and oil pipelines. These forests, like the amazon, were being cleared at a rate of 149 acres every minute, or 214,000 acres every day.
The result of these forests and trees being cleared was that it was causing global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction, rain forest destruction and it has depleted fisheries and desertification. The amount of the amazon that was about one million acres or that is about 10% of the Amazon or about the size of Washington states Olympic peninsula. Each year 50,000 species were being extirpated that’s 137 each day.
The indigenous people that
This article is from October 16 and it presents information about how people are clearing forests for cattle ranches, mining operations and oil pipelines. These forests, like the amazon, were being cleared at a rate of 149 acres every minute, or 214,000 acres every day.
The result of these forests and trees being cleared was that it was causing global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction, rain forest destruction and it has depleted fisheries and desertification. The amount of the amazon that was about one million acres or that is about 10% of the Amazon or about the size of Washington states Olympic peninsula. Each year 50,000 species were being extirpated that’s 137 each day.
The indigenous people that