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    Who Deserve the Rainforest? More than 50% of the whole Amazon rainforest is being used on cattle ranchers. The different types of groups in the Amazon rainforest have been arguing about who deserves the rainforest. environmentalist are scientists that help protect and study different species in the rainforest. Even though the rainforest provides the cattle ranchers loggers and settlers with resources environmentalist believe that the Amazon rainforest should be preserved. Environmentalist…

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    The Amazon rainforest is the biggest in the world. It covers an astonishing 2.124 million square miles, originally it was a whole 4,100,000 kilometers. It is significantly smaller now because of the logging companies and farmers who took over much of the land. The tribes that have lived in the rainforest for generations past and the ones who will live there in the future, are severely affected by the deforestation and are slowly being squeezed out of their livelihoods. The loggers and farmers…

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    The Amazon rainforest also known, as the Amazon Jungle is the largest rainforest on this planet it is home to the second largest river in the world. The Amazon is so large it includes territory between nine nations but 60% of it is in Brazil. The rainforest receives around 150 inches a rain per year. The Amazon is the most populated with different species than any other rainforest in the world; the region is home to more than 2 million insect species, thousands of plants, and a little…

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    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…

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    approximately over 30 million species of plants, animals and incest that call the rainforest their home. The loss of these species homes, which toke sixty to hundred million years to evolve isn’t the only reason deforestation is a problem and a lot of them affect you too. Twenty percent of the world’s oxygen is produced in the amazon rain forest alone along with twenty-five percent of our medicines come from the rainforest. Which we have only discovered 1% of the plants there, image what…

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    The Amazon’s rainforest is a serious controversial issue seen in the media. Human health and the environment are threatened by the act of deforestation. Deforestation is a worldwide issue that is impacting our climate, health, and biodiversity, there is little being done to address this continuing problem. We all are immune to hearing the term “go green” from environmentalist and environmental ad companies. It has become harder to catch the eye of the public audience to raise awareness of…

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    The Amazon Rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world. Covering over a billion acres in the countries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Columbia; the Amazon is home to 40,000 plant species, 1,300 bird species, 3,000 types of fish, 430 mammals and 2.5 million different insects. That’s a lot of life, not even including the 700,000 indigenous tribal people that are living in the Amazon today. This untamed jungle is disappearing fast, 14% of the world was covered by rainforests thousands of years ago…

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    to tackle this problem but with only mediocre success. The current way of life for human beings is no longer sustainable, due to rainforest destruction, soil depletion, large population growth, food and water shortages, and pollution. Rainforests are extremely…

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    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…

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    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…

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