Rainforest Essay

The Amazon rainforest should allow the rubber tappers to control the land because they are better for the environment and they are more adapted to the rainforest. For one, they protect the rainforest and its livelihood. The rubber tappers also use trees to make products like tries for like cars and bikes. The rubber tappers were the first to the Amazon rainforest that been there for many generations. According to the article Interest Groups “Since they lived there for many generations they…

It’s talked about widely across the globe, but how much do we truly know about the dwindling rainforests. Officials across the world are stepping to start saving them before they’re gone all together. From widespread tropical fires, deforestation, and unknown amounts of plant and animal extinctions, known or not, the world is starting to call in protection and justice. Globally the world is covered in more than 10 billion acres of forests, but 15 million acres are cut down each year. Every…

It is estimated that about 15 percent of the greenhouse gasses that are released into our atmosphere are from deforestation from plantation agriculture (WWF). The Amazon Rainforest is known as a carbon sink, meaning that the trees here soak up carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that pollute our atmosphere (WWF). With the increasing numbers of trees being cut down every day for the high supply and demand of the cash crops here, the amount of the greenhouse gases being released in the…

Tropical deforestation is an issue that has plagued mankind since the beginning of time. It is an important component of global change and has a large influence on many different environmental issues we have today such as climate change and carbon emissions. Over a twelve year period that ended in 2012, 1.1 million km2 of tropical forest was lost, with the rate of forest loss increasing during this span. One of the largest and most biodiverse tropical forests’ in the world is the Amazon,…

distributed throughout mountainous regions of Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, are complex ecosystems characterized by low fog cover at the canopy level, which enhances moisture levels, and cooler temperatures than lowland tropical rainforests (Doumenge, 1995). These tropical montane forests are host to an incredible number of species, many of which are endemic to their area (Doumenge, 1995). Epiphytes, plants that root in other plants for structural support while obtaining…

Amazon Rainforest Essay Every big mistake has a resolution. My home in the Amazon Rainforest is being destroyed day by day, soon to be gone. I, Watermelondrea am a Native Amazonian. Watermelondrea is what people like to call me, but I like to go by Watermelondrea. I am a 14 year old living in the Amazon Rainforest. My ancestors, the Native Amazonians, have lived here for over 12,000 years, and my family for as long as they can remember. This is the beginning of my journal about saving my home…

The Amazon Rainforest; what all lurks within has been somewhat of a mystery. Although, what isn’t a mystery is the deforestation happening there. Some can argue that deforestation can actually benefit society, but is it benefits really long term? Is it really worth it to hack down one of the largest forests just to get some short term profits instead of thinking about the climate impact just the rainforest has by itself on the world? Even so, the environmental problems that we face do not just…

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world. It covers eight countries and about two million miles of land. It produces about twenty percent of the world's oxygen. The Amazon Rainforest is losing a lot of trees due to deforestation. About ninety eight percent of Native Amazonian tribes have territories in the amazon. Native Amazonians have been in the rainforest for about twelve thousand years, that is about four-hundred-eighty generations that have lived there. They fish…

Deforestation Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has many ethical implications that are mostly negative with only a few being positive. Throughout history the Amazon rainforest has been going through massive deforestation which has affected untold numbers of animal species and humans in the region. Normally to the benefit of the humans and to the detriment of the animals. The purpose of this paper is to being to light the ethical implications starting with some history of the topic, then…

Tropical rainforests are important as they are home to more than 2 million species, which represents over half of the world’s species of plants, animals, insects and a great variety of fungi. This also contributes to the huge biodiversity of the rainforests. The continuous canopy of the trees is a habitat for some species of plants to grow and animals can live in. Tropical rainforests are also home to indigenous people, who depend on the rainforests for their resources for survival. According…