Deforestation is a construction that human cut down the trees to make land available for other uses. It is also considered to be one of the contributing factors to global climate change. Without trees‚ forestlands can quickly become barren land. We are losing the oxygen produced by the trees and it takes hundreds of years in the making to grow another one. Nowadays‚ each country is facing the deforestation problems. Looking at the core concept of deforestation in Amazon through both sides‚ we can
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not heard. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. In my life‚ I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals‚ jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterfilies‚ but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all
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Guava is a small tropical tree that grows up to 35 feet tall; it is widely grown for its fruit in tropics. It is a member of the Myrtaceae family‚ with about 133 genera and more than 3‚800 species. The leaves and bark of P. guajava tree have a long history of medicinal uses that are still employed today (Nwinyi et al.‚ 2008). In the view of the immense medicinal importance of P. guajava plant evidenced in the various studies mentioned above and also corroborated in a recent review article by Kamath
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forests that have been affected is the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The main causes of deforestation in the Amazon are cattle ranching‚ subsistence and commercial agriculture‚ infrastructure‚ illegal and legal logging‚ and other minor factors such as fires‚ road construction‚ mining‚ and dams. Deforestation plays a negative toll on the world by killing millions of animals‚ plants‚ and insects each day and releasing greenhouse gases. Rainforests cover thirty percent of the world and each year
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painters‚ Félix Auguste Clément and Jean-Léon Gérôme.[10] Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naïve or primitive painter. His best known paintings depict jungle scenes‚ even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) was exhibited in 1891‚ and Rousseau received his first serious review‚ when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: "His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed; it’s the alpha and omega of painting." Yet it was more than
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African tree toads live in tropical lowland forest. The African tree toad is mostly found in the central part of Africa‚ the main countries are: Cameroon‚ Equatorial Guinea‚ Gabon‚ Nigeria and Democratic republic of congo. The African tree toad’s habitat must have plentiful water supply for them to survive. In order for all living organisms to survive‚ food must also be available. The Nectophryne afra is a carnivorous amphibian‚ they eat small invertebrates‚ like insects‚ worms and spiders. There
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disintegration and additionally the world ’s biodiversity. Nearly 50% of the world’s tropical forests reside in the Amazon forest‚ which is located in South America. Unfortunately‚ over 60% of the world’s deforestation is also occurring here. This does not only affect the millions of animals and plants in the rainforests but also the 400 indigenous groups that reside in the Amazon rainforest. The deforestation of the rainforest is the collective efforts of many countries such as Bolivia‚ Brazil‚ Colombia
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From the ground‚ they throw cool shadows over the Caribbean and cities like Port-au-Prince‚ a mirage of lushness. But from an airplane‚ the green gives way to deep‚ sand-colored gouges of erosion and a mediterranean sparseness unsuited to this tropical island. Less obvious are the dozens of environmental projects that have sprung up in recent years. Some‚ like a four-year‚ $30 million natural resource project sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development‚ are massive. Others
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feed the tree. In this process‚ as well as wood‚ trees create many chemicals‚ seeds and fruit of great utility to man. Trees also remove carbon dioxide‚ the main greenhouse gas‚ from the air. Trees are of continued importance to the environment. Tropical rain forests have of particular significance; although they now occupy less than 6 per cent of the land surface of the earth they probable sustain more than half of the biological species on the planet. Notwithstanding the debt we owe to trees‚
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larger than Europe caused by chemicals used daily. Such chemicals are being released more and more each day; faster than our trees and oceans can absorb. Having less and less trees each day could also be an important factor to take into account. The rainforest is disappearing due to deforestation‚
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