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Francesca Williams Writing- 1 December 19, 2017 8 Amazing Facts About Sloths Introduction: Deep in the forest lives the slowest creature on earth, the sloth. Sloths can live up to 10 years. They are commonly found in South America and spend their life in the forests. Sloths are a mystery to many people. Even though they are slow and seem like friendly animals, how much do you really know about sloths? 1. Sloths are slow because of their diet Imagine yourself eating salad for…

Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a huge scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 35 percent of the world’s land area, but strips the size of cap is lost each and every year. The world’s rain forests could totally disappear in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Forests are cut down for various reasons, but most of them are connected to money or to people’s need to offer for their families. The prime driver of…

chosen. Describe the damage to the ecosystem for each example, including how the abiotic and biotic characteristics of the ecosystem changed. Human-caused disturbance Introduction of invasive species to forest by human activities has greatly impacted the tropical rainforests. Essentially, tropical forests seem to have little resistance to such invasions, and the newly-introduced species frequently threaten native species, as they have no local enemies to control their populations. Natural-caused…

short white hair that surrounds the face, capped with a mantle of long white hair that extends form the shoulder down to the lower back and a bushy white tuft to tip of tail. Guereza Colobus live mostly with the main environment being of tropical forest. Living in cohesive groups ranging the size 3 to 15 individuals, with sometimes supporting several adult males, that normally comprises of one male accompanying by several females and young. The Guereza colobus freely move about mostly…

Garcinia L. is a pantropically distributed genus with high species richness in south East Asia, and composed of 240 woody tree species. In India the genus represented by 36 species including 6 endemic to Western Ghats only. For Genus Garcinia Western Ghats is considered as secondary center for origin (Abraham et al. 2006). It includes G. indica (Thouars) Choisy, G. gummi-gutta (L.) Robs., G. hombroniana Pierre and G. xanthochymus Hook.f. ex Anders that provide important resources in Indian…

rainforests are being cut down at an immensely dangerous rate and little to nothing is being done to grow the forests back up again. The rainforests are being destroyed and the impact of it is beginning to become awfully serious. Human beings must start using the rainforests more sustainably and efficiently or the effects may be catastrophic. A rainforest is a very important type of forest that covers a very small percentage of the world’s land- six percent, though it used to cover fourteen…

is unnecessary and causes the climate to change negatively and forests cover 30% of the world’s land area, large patches are lost every year due to deforestation. Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests or a wide area of trees. People need trees. Deforestation is unnecessary because the water cycle is being affecting negatively and trees are a big part of it, also 1.6 billion people rely on the resources from the forest, and global warming is also being affected negatively.…

My topic I will be discussing is; deforestation of the rainforest. In my next paragraphs I will explain the pros and cons of this topic; deforestation of the rainforest. Let’s start discussing the cons; Deforestation can cause a domino effect on the whole planet, including global climate change, indigenous people annihilation and biodiversity extinction. (Green Garage Blog) One wrong move, and the process will lead us to an empty and meaningless world. The death of plants and animals can lead…

woodpecker The Red-headed Woodpecker is known for its fiery red-head and black and white body. It resides predominately in the Midwest and East Coast of America, occasionally drifting westward during the summer. It breeds in woodlands, orchards, parks, forest edges and swamps. The red-headed woodpecker is one of the most aggressive members of the woodpecker family. Not only will it attack…

Emerald Ash Borer in Wisconsin Veronica Williams, Andy Lundin, Balin Magee, Zach Smola Ash trees are a very common and beautiful tree in Wisconsin, and they are used by many people for their lumber. There is a nuisance attacking and destroying the ash tree, and that is the infestation of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer, or EAB. The adult beetles do little harm to the tree by just eating their foliage, but their larvae burrow beneath the bark of the tree and restrict the tree’s ability to…