Rainforest Destruction

Slide 1: RainfoRest defoRestation Created and Presented by Sophia Nuñez

Slide 3: 22° North 0° 22° South Where is the Tropic of Cancer? The Equator? How about the Tropic of Capricorn?

Slide 5: Madagascar Southeast Asia

Slide 8: Deforestation Nutrients are  removed from the ecosystem Soil is only good for a  short period of time Grazing  Burning  Building 

Slide 9: Deforestation

Slide 10: Facts Tropical Rainforest covers less than 6% of the  Earth’s land More than ½ of worlds plants and animal  species live in tropical rainforest’s Produces 40% of earth’s oxygen  25% of all medicines come from rainforest  plants 70% of plants with known anti-cancer properties  are from rainforest By 2050 there may be no more rainforest 

Slide 11: Friends & Neighbors

Slide 12: Insects

Slide 13: Birds

Slide 14: Reptiles

Slide 15: Other Animals

Slide 16: Don’t just think locally, Think globally!! Rainforest Conservation Fund

Slide 17: BiBliogRaphy April 17, 2007: www.stanford.edu/.../epidemiology.htm; www.stanford.edu/.../Images/Globe.png April 17, 2007: www.uwlax.edu/.../biodiversity/global1.html; www.uwlax.edu/.../rainforest_small.gif April 17, 2007: www.enchantedlearning.com/.../Mapbw.shtml; www.enchantedlearning.com/rgifs/Rfmap_bw.GIF April 18, 2007: www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/ecosystems.html; images.wildmadagascar.org/.../masoala-0160.jpg April 18, 2007: www.mongabay.com/external/2005/03_08-ran.html; www.mongabay.org/images/borneo_river_08.gif April 18, 2007: www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/photos/pho...; www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/images/pho... April 17, 2007:www.mobot.org/hort/gardens/CLtropfor.shtml; www.mobot.org/hort/images/Clim1-1.jpg April 21, 2007: uk.encarta.msn.com/media_461536221_761567022_...; images.encarta.msn.com/.../pho/t051/T051606A.jpg