Deforestation

By: Marie Parche, Kelsey Slater, and Emily

Singerman
4th Period Science
4/4/14
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Rainforest deforestation is a problem that causes global
warming, loss of habitat and affects the water cycle. It
affects all organisms, including native humans, worldwide.
Science
Soil Erosion
Extinction of species
Low genetic diversity
Greenhouse effect
Reduction in oxygen
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Causes
Direct
Indirect
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Effects
Greenhouse Gasses
Disrupted Water Cycles
Disrupted lives
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releases/roseburg-blm-clearcut-logging-plan-challenged
Is Deforestation Getting Worse?
Deforestation gradually getting better
Having slight spike now
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What Can You Do To Help?
Plant a tree
Go paperless
Recycle
Buy recycled products
Donate Rainforest Alliance and W.W.F
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org/wiki/Recycling_symbol
Statistics
100 species lost/ 27,000 year
12-15 million hectares each year
Amazon losing 27,000km2 each year
80-90% rainforests destroyed by 2020
Rainforest Population and Temperate Rainforests
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Why Should You Care?
Save Animals
Save Plants and Forests
Save our World
Save Oxygen
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