Deforestation

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Deforestation

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What Is deforestation?.................................................................................pg.3 Advertisement…………………………………………………………………………………………pg.4 Causes and effects of Deforestation………………………………………………………..pg.5 Pictures of Deforestation………………………………………………………………………...pg.6 Solution and proposal to stop deforestation……………………………………………pg.7 Advertisement………………………………………………………………………………………...pg.8 Editorial……………………………………………………………………………………………………pg.9 Pictures of deforestation…………………………………………………………………………pg.10 Quotes…………………………………………………………………………………………………….pg.11 Credits and advertisement…………………………………………………………………......pg.12 Pictures……………………………………………………………………………………………………pg.13 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………………………..pg.14

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What is Deforestation?

Deforestation is the destruction of land and woodlands. One of the causes of loss of biodiversity is deforestation. Many animals die each year because of deforestation, they lose their home or habitat or they die.

Everyday approximately 137 species are extinct. Deforestation is a contributor to global warming. There are many causes of deforestation like: logging, mining, oil and gas extraction, cattle ranching, agriculture: cash crops, local and national factors. 1 hectare is destructed every second, this will equivalent to 2 U.S. football fields. The effects of deforestation are: loss of biodiversity, eruption of soil, climate change, disruption of the water cycle.

Every year 8.5 million hectares of tropical forests are being cut out.

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Coca Cola is helping the world by doing their bottles with recycle materials and protecting some areas so people don’t destroy them.

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Causes and effects of deforestation

The causes of deforestation are various. People need jobs and a way to have them it is also working for companies that cut trees to make houses because of the overpopulation.

Now we try to stop using oil to make gas and people are searching for new way to make alternative fuels, they find the palm oil. People are cutting the trees and monocultures. It is also a short economic business. Also we are cutting most of the trees to make paper, and the most important is to make cities and agriculture.

The effect of all this reasons is that humans are destroying the biodiversity of our world. In the last 40 years the Amazon, the world largest rain forest has been reducing 20%. A lot of trees are cut so the natural medicine that we have is disappearing.

There are no trees to stop very high speed winds that can affect our cities because they also function as windbreakers. There is more pollution and fewer trees to fight it.

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Pictures:

http://www.newperimeter.org/our-work/environment/rainforest-project.html

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/gr een-science/deforestation.htm

http://mclelun.deviantart.com/art/StopDeforestation-89643775

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Solution and proposal to stop deforestation: Without trees there is no clean oxygen, and without oxygen we can die. Now that we know that deforestation is a very important global issue, we know that we can do something about this. There are many solutions that we can do to help facing this impacting issue. To help this, first when you go to buy things you should look that the products you are buying are made of 100% post-costumer materials, this means that they are recycled or not made form real wood. You can also buy only products that are from companies that want to reduce deforestation or help it. Also if you don’t know what the product is, you can ask the person that is attending you if this product is giving an impact to deforestation, or is making a big problem. Also we can help in many other ways.

Make the countries get together to help deforestation and to make a point of view for the one that don’t know why this is a big issue. One of the most important of this is that you can educate your family or friends and everyone you know telling them how they could help deforestation. We can also reforestate, this means that every time that you cut or kill a tree you should plant another one. If we are together everything is possible. Many companies and organizations are trying to stop deforestation such as WWF, Work Cabin, X Prize Foundation, Celsias, The United Nations Development Programme, East Africa Trust, Green Terra Frim, Our World, Tessea, Create, Clean Tick, 3e, Social Multipurpose, Ego- DRRnet, Nature conservation Foundation, Low carbon Economy.com, Ecorbit, Go Green or Die, Greenpeace, Cayman Institute, etc. What this companies are doing is to plant more trees, contributing financially to environmental causes, they are part of a global network and also work at an international level to help sustainable development, they inform people about deforestation, some of this companies are eco businesses, they provide clean technology and renewable energy industries, promote biodiversity conservation, in between others.

Our proposal is to buy post-costumer products which mean that these products are made from recycling materials and they are not cutting trees again to fabricate them, also what we can do is to recycle the bottles at school and educate people about this global issue and why it is so important. The way we are going to this plan is to make huge posters all around the school for the people to see them and make a conscience. We would also, encourage people to keep on doing the bottle recycle project in secondary and primary school project and do a new project which will be to recycle paper so no more trees are cut. We will also, in the school buy materials that are 100% post-costumer. This project would take about 2 weeks to do the posters, and one week to paste them in all the walls, the other solutions can be apply every day when you go to buy something at school or when you drink something. The materials we would use to this will be recycled cardboard posters, natural paint, masking tape and brushes. For the other proposals we will use the cages to recycle the bottles. We can also recycle paper and we should do campaigns at school. For this we will need the same materials to do the posters to encourage people and also many recycled carton boxes to place the paper. We can also do a contest on this, the grade that will collect more paper and bottles will win a recognizment and a day where they can go to plant trees for one day in a park or in zones where there is no trees (reforestate). This proposal should be applied to school because this will help deforestation because by recycling bottles and paper trees will not be cut down again for paper use. If we do campaigns people will start making conscience and this idea will expand throughout the school and then the region, the country and maybe in the world. If we but post costumer products we will help to make less trees to be cut and this way there would be less deforestation. The objective of this proposal is to help to stop deforestation by starting doing changes in our society and our school because together we can make the change. This is a very good solution because to do this we don’t need a lot of money, we can recollect recycled materials that students don’t use, we will only need to buy many trees seeds for the wining grade and we should only do more cages to recycle the bottles. To recycle the paper we only need carton boxes which won’t be a problem because if the school buys something such as a desk the box where the desk was hand in can be used for this. If there are no boxes we can have little boxes be placed in each grade and be emptied each week by the grade president and vice-president.

To get the money we can do a candy and cake sale fair.

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Converse is helping the world by doing most of their shoes with recycled materials.

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Editorial: Deforestation is a very big global issue not because it is worldwide but because it affects many people, including animals and plants. Deforestation is a very impacting global issue but there is really no solution that can stop completely deforestation.

In one part deforestation is good because it provides jobs to people and it also satisfies some of our necessities, including products such as tables and chairs.

Deforestation has also a bad side, it kills millions of animals and because of deforestation there is more greenhouse effect. We can say that deforestation has huge impacts on the world and it has more negative sides than positive sides.

What we can do is to start by reforestation. This will make a change because after some years that the trees will grow again and animals can recover their habitat and start living there again.

Also cutting trees is a very important activity with many benefits but it is also a bad thing, what we can do is that after we cut the trees we replace them with other trees. With this we can start making a change in this world and each step we take is another step to solve deforestation.

Trees are an essential part of our lives because they, not only provide us fresh air but because forests are homes of many species of animals and plants. If we keep on with this global issue and we don’t start stopping it, extinction will be one of the main effects but it may also follow with some other effects such as polluted air and many contamination.

As I said, deforestation is a big global issue that it cannot be solved completely but we can still do something about it and make a difference. Some of the causes of deforestation are agriculture, over population, exploitation of natural resources and wood industries.

http://dilipkumar.in/articles/globalwarming/trees-still-falling-deforestationcontinues-at-alarming-rates.html

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Picture of deforestation

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/environment/ig/Environment-Cartoons/Happy-Earth-Day.htm

http://luka-globalenvironmentalissues.blogspot.com/2008/09/un-initiates-save-forest-program.html

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http://www.englishdaybyday.net/45categorie-11584520.html

"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down."

http://theeverydayecowar.wordpress.co m/2011/06/12/deforestation-at-homeand-abroad/

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children" a

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CREDITS: Mateo Zambrano: What is Deforestation?

Bruno Araque: Causes and Effects of Deforestation Valeria Gonzรกlez: Solutions and proposal to stop Deforestation Paola Romo: Editorial

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http://www.becausewemust.org/earth/ecol ogy-and-civilization/orangutandeforestation-for-palm-oil-plantationscenesfrom-indonesia18/

http://www.indigenous.youthleader.org/?p=4082

http://www.asiantrendsmonitoring.com/ta g/deforestation/

http://www.soilnet.com/dev/page.cfm?pageid=secondary_threats_ deforestation&loginas=anon_secondary&menuplace holder=secondary_threats_deforestation

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Putatunda, Rita. Buzzle.com. Buzzle.com, 13 Dec. 2011. Web. 26 Sept. 2012. <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/causes-and-effects-of-deforestation.html>.

"Solutions to Deforestation." Greenpeace. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2012. <http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/forests/solutions-todeforestation/>.

"How Deforestation Works." HowStuffWorks. Discovery Channel, n.d. Web. 26 Sept.

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