Amazon Rainforest

parcel of the Amazon Rainforest the size of a football field disappears in order to create more land for companies to build on. For instance, in the year of 2004, the Brazilian government earned approximately 10 billion dollars by flattening areas in the Amazon in order to build soybean farms (The Economy). However, many fail to understand the mass amount of oxygen that the Amazon forest produces for the world. In fact, more than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon which is…

Only 30% of Argentina’s original trees and forest remain. The Chaco and Yungas rainforests are the primary forests affected by deforestation.These forests are “considered an international hot spot for biodiversity In Argentina” (Beyond the Amazon: Deforestation in Argentina). Throughout Argentina live many indigenous groups and tribes such as the Toba, Wichi and Mocovi. These tribes live in and throughout the Chaco…

discoveries and how it influences today’s natural world in a remarkable and evolving way. Through the video, it easily explains about how life is thought-provoking and the signs of the changing world are around us (if its deep underground or in a large amazon forest). It amazes me through this film about how he had developed the idea about the Tree of Life came from a couple different finches from islands that he investigated; however, all those birds had a common ancestor. Darwin developed…

to disprove the belief that only the lionesses hunted. In fact the male lions hunted in tightly packed vegetation whereas the females hunted in the open plain. Again when he was explaining just how much information they got from flying above the rainforest; they could tell what type of trees were growing, if they had vines growing on them, and they could see individual branches and leaves. 8) The first question that Greg is trying to answer is: How do we manage our carbon reserves in tropical…

Look ahead to a world where the rainforests have been devastated. As a shadow of its former self, deforestation has reduced the Amazon to a third of its current size. Over forty-percent of the species once native to the region have gone extinct. Undiscovered plants, with the potential to yield new medicines and cures, are no longer in existence. Thousands of new animal and insect species, unknown to the outside world, have all died off. Look ahead to a world where finding clean water is rare. A…

Even though most of it happens on the other side of the globe, that doesn’t mean that it lacks an influence in the daily lives of the American people. In addition, the potential emissions from releasing trees’ carbon in the Amazon outweighs that of man-made greenhouse gases (Rainfall and Temperature). Not only does the common person contribute to the greenhouse effect by driving a car, but that person mostly likely does not know of the jeopardizing crisis that deforestation…

getting their food because they are expert hunters. Chapter 4: Geography and Habitat Black leopards can be found in dimly-lit tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia. They can also be seen in some rocky areas and mountain ranges of Africa. Black jaguars, on the other hand, are commonly found in Central and South America especially in the Amazon rainforests. Chapter 5: Social Life Black panthers are elusive. People rarely see them in the wild, despite confirm sightings in…

obtained their food due to the affects of the installment of the dam. The movie taught many valuable lessons including a lesson about cultural change. Cultures are constantly changing all across the globe including the cultures of the tribes of the Amazon. The Bat people’s culture changed dramatically. For instance,…

Today, we are facing the environmental crisis of global warming. A major factor that is contributing to this is the use and burning of fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil. Through the process of coal burning, Carbon Dioxide is formed as a result, which is one of the major causes of the Greenhouse effect. With the Greenhouse effect, the Earth’s average temperature rises, causing ice caps to melt, which is an effect of global warming. To put a stop to this, our population needs to…

They are specifically found in cities of South America, like Brazil, Peru, French Guyana, Suriname, Guyana, and Bolivia. This canopy species lives in undisturbed rainforests. This primate species which mostly spends it's time in the upper or middle sections of the rainforests, lives in areas isolated from human population, and human development. This species of Spider Monkeys has a specialized body structure to help it survive in it’s environment. This adaptive species…