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    money. This is because of worldwide deforestation. Countries destroy their trees to earn an easy profit at the cost of the Earth’s forests. Deforestation is used to create plantations, clear land for real estate development, and to harvest paper or wood. According to Kerry Cesareo and Linda K. Walker of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), “46-58 thousand square miles of forest are lost each year.” Fortunately, there have been many advancements in deforestation research and some nations…

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    According to the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization, an estimated 16 million acres of forest are being lost each year globally to deforestation (FAO 5). Contributing factors include agricultural expansion, logging, development, and other human activities. In order to put this into perspective, the World Wildlife Fund describes this as an equivalent to forty-eight football fields of forest being lost every minute (WWF 1). This is alarming, because even though for many of us, major…

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    The Dark Side of Deforestation Did you know that 80% of the world’s known plants and animals live in forests and are steadily losing their habitats to deforestation? Deforestation happens for a number of reasons and causes biodiversity to decline. As biodiversity declines, animals are dying and relocating because their ecosystem is becoming unstable. Some of the species in forests are unidentified species, others vast webs of plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. Deforestation causes many…

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    Introduction Deforestation is essentially the destruction of the forest by human beings. It not just influences the plants and animals living in the forest, as well as the earth and us humans living on it. On top of that, People can 't get by without the forests; the forest purify our air and water, in addition to the Forest ' trees prevent erosion, fires, droughts, and flooding. Forests are home to plants and animals that supply different levels of the world’s food chain and the help of which…

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    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…

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    vast region that covers about 40% of South America and is full of diversity and beauty. The rainforest holds about 90-140 metric tons of carbon that helps steady local and global climate. However, in the section that is in Peru, gold mining and deforestation has negatively impacted the forest resulting in the climate to affect animals, plants and even people. More than 30 million people live in the amazon and depend on the resources it provides. They all rely on the amazons natural food, shelter…

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    Introduction Deforestation is a curse since Prehistory, it leads to many consequences in different fields such as the environment or the society. Forests are known to be the planet lungs, how could their destruction impact environment? To understand better this phenomenon, an overview of the areas deforestation around the world, its history and main causes is essential. Then, focusing on a specific area, the Amazonia, is useful to explain the deforestation consequences. I-Overview of the…

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    An Ethical Approach to Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest Are outsiders overusing resources in the Amazon rainforest? Some believe that cutting down trees is necessary economically, while others argue that it only makes the wildlife and neighboring people helpless. While deforestation can provide farmers and locals with many materials, such as knifes, paper, and wood; it can also cause several harmful effects such as, global warming, carbon emissions, loss of habitats, and the destruction of…

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    But the deforestation is hard to measure compared to the Amazon but it is a fraction of the forest loss in the Amazon. Most of the deforestation is caused by farmers who grow their resources and once they get done with that part of the land they move on. As of right now the Congo is in good shape what experts are worried about…

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    because of deforestation it only makes up 6% of the earth's land. The tropical rainforests get their name from the yearly rain fall; an average of 392.5 cm of rain drowns the Tropical rainforests around the world, tropical rainforests are the home of half of the worlds animals and plants, 70% of the plants in Tropical Rainforests are trees, 40% of all the oxygen in the world gets produced in Tropical Rainforests around the world. Deforestation is the extermination of forests, deforestation is…

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