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Amazon Rainforest. one ecosystem; processes, benefits for people, impact on human activity and management. Effects of rainforest destruction. Change in Bio-diversity- removal of plants and animals
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The amazon rainforest. about. covers an area of 8 billion km2- it is the largest rainforest in the world. since the 1970s 600,000km2 has been destroyed due to deforestation. logging, cattle ranching , mining. South America- covers parts of Brazil, columbia, bolivia. Negative impacts. environmental
Theme 2 - The Amazon Rainforest. It is estimated that over 20% of the worlds oxygen is made here. Local tribes are having their livelihoods destroyed by deforesters. 10% of the worlds species can be found in the amazon rainforest. Deforestation could mean they have to find a new ecosystem. Slash and Burn. Forest is burnt and cut in order to ...
Map of the Amazon rainforest ecoregions as delineated by the WWF in dark green [1] and the Amazon drainage basin in light green. The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
2009 Amazon Protected Areas and Indigenous Territories. Image courtesy of the Red Amazónica de Información Socioambiental Georreferenciada (RAISG). High resolution. Why are rainforests important? Why are rainforests disappearing? How can we save rainforests?
4 gru 2018 · The Amazon Rainforest, also referred to as Amazonia or simply The Amazon Jungle, is the world’s largest rainforest and, with an area of approximately 5,500,000 square kilometres, it represents over half of the world’s remaining rainforest.
