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    Due to the rain forest's massive size and its various feature, it holds such a lot of differing resources that people are dependent on landform. The Amazon rain forest has a wide variety different trees that are best for taking wood. The timber is used in a lot of ways, for example, like building boats or just making stuff with timber. The Amazon forest is so vast; it is a big destination for anyone, in particular, to extract timber and use it in many ways that could benefit a person's life. Medicine is another resource that can be obtained from the Amazon rain forest. Many researchers are starting to notice how diverse plants are in the rain forest so they are looking at plants that could be used to produce disease-curing medicines. Oil is…

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    Deforestation effects on the Amazon Rainforest and The Indigenous Indians The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, most of it located in Brazil. About 10% of the world’s species are found in the Amazon. The Amazon is home to 40,000 species of plants and some of these plants are used for making new medication and vaccines, such as for cancer. Not only can we use the resources found in the Amazon for medical purposes, but it also produces about 20% of the oxygen we need.…

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    Deforestation in The Amazon Rainforest affects the forest, the inhabitants, the weather, and even the polar ice caps. My project goal is to explain and demonstrate to my audience that even though logging may seem like a victimless crime, it’s actually causing much harm to the Earth. Deforestation causes a domino effect, where one spot of wildlife were to die out, the rest of the Earth would fall. Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest affects human lives and will make the future collapse if…

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    The Amazon Rainforest

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    The Amazon Rainforest covers approximately 2,650,000 square miles of land in South America, more than one third of the entire continent. It is full of natural resources, such as fruits, vegetables, pharmaceuticals derived from plants, oils used for perfumes and detergents, and woods. Comprised of the largest collection of living plant and animal species in the world, this rainforest is also home to hundreds of indigenous tribes, each with their own language, culture, and territory(USA TODAY,…

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    Amazon Rainforest

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    the world’s rainforests. The largest of these rainforests is the Amazon Basin, located in South America. The Amazon is home to an impressive amount of diversity and it’s location in the perfect place on the planet to ensure a wide variety of life. The Amazon basin is one of the most impressive and superb examples of an Ecosystem. An Ecosystem is a complex community of organisms and environment functioning as an ecological unit. The Amazon is a perfect example of this definition. Located in the…

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    Deforestation is occurring around this world more rapidly that It should be. While this is happening, people are losing their homes, animals are losing their lives, and this earth’s beauty is deteriorating. Using the Amazon rainforest, as an example to how people of this world are massacring the very essence of what we are would only give you a small insight to the destruction we are causing. The more we destroy our only resources the more we are suffocating ourselves. We are so busy trying to…

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    The world has been having an ongoing problem of deforestation for the past couple of years. Furthermore, the two countries that seem to have the largest deforestation issue in the world are Brazil and Indonesia. They are both countries that have vast amounts of rainforest and due to the increased demand around the world of timber, arable land, and soybeans, the amount of rainforest decreases on an annual basis. The Amazon rainforest is the largest on the planet and even though it spreads out…

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    The Amazon rainforest stretches 3 million square miles across nine different countries including Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Perú, and Colombia. The main countries that house the Amazon are Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia. However, majority of the Amazon is actually in Brazil. This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million…

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    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 atmosphere have also increased . If carbon…

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    Importance of The Amazon Rainforest Kevin O’Gorman It’s suffering. The biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest is suffering from the rapid changes within it. Humans are cutting down the wood in the Amazon for resources. Everything is dying off because of the changes. It may be at a point of no return and impossible to save. The important plants are being destroyed for human resources. The Amazon is habitat to a variety of animals and humans. They’re suffering because the place they…

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