The document discusses deforestation, particularly in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest. It notes that deforestation is driven by activities like agriculture, logging, and cattle ranching. This has negative environmental impacts such as loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, and disruption of the water cycle. Brazil has the highest annual deforestation rate of any country since 1990. Deforestation threatens ecosystems like the Atlantic Forest in Brazil and reduces habitats for plants and animals.

1. By: Courtney Bailey

2. The cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or
related ecosystems into less bio-diverse
ecosystems.
Deforestation is also one of the contributing
factors to global climate change.

3. Brazil is home to the world-renowned Amazon
Rainforest and the basin it occupies, deforestation
has become a major cause for concern in this area.
Every minute, vast proportions are being torn
down for timber, development and agriculture.
Brazil has always been home to an array of animal
and plant species. However, because of hunting
and the destruction of habitat, Brazil’s natural
animal life has experienced a huge decline in
numbers.

4. Construction
Agriculture
Logging For
Timber
Cattle ranching

5. Soil Erosion
Loss of Bio-Diversity
Disruption of the
Water Cycle

6. This is a map
showing the
breakdown of
annual
Deforestation
rate since 1990.
As you can see
Brazil has had
the highest
rate out of all
the other
countries.

7. Coastal
Forest
(East
Africa)
Southwest
Forest
(China)
Atlantic
Forest
(South
America-
Brazil)
California
Floristic
Province
(North
America)

8. For every tree that is cut down, plant two more in
its place.
Employ a series of laws and rules to govern
cutting down trees.
Recycle any and all paper products such as: paper
pads, shopping bags, books, tissue paper, etc..

9. Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species
(CITIES)
Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC)
Rainforest Action Network
(RAN)

10. The net loss for the worlds forests is estimated at 12 to 15
million acres of land per year. That’s equivalent to 36
Football fields being destroyed per minute.
Rainforests once covered about 14 percent of the Earth,
but have been reduced in size now to only about 6 percent
of the Earth's surface.
We lose 147 plants and animals everyday due to
deforestation.
At the current rate that we are cutting down forests, in
about 100 years we will no longer have any existing
rainforests anywhere in the world.

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