Amazon Rainforest

By

Mitchell Connolly

Amazon rainforest

• The Amazon rainforest is in south America.

• It covers 5,500,000 kilometers out of 7,000,000 kilometers of land.

• The 5,500,000 Km belongs to nine different regions.

Deforestation

• When parts of the Amazon are lost that land can never be remade to its full potential no trees can be re-grown again.

Deforestation damages

With in 1991-2000 the amazon rainforest had lost a total of 415,000-587,000 km of land, just so more houses can be made for people to live/survive in.

Human Impact

• Do to the human impact on the Amazon we have lost 54 billion tons of carbon from one rainforest. (Amazon)

• With less carbon in the air it doesn’t help prevent global warming and it ruins the environmental impact of the Amazon.

Reasons for deforestation

• deforestation could happen for many reason but the main reason are Commodity, Pasture, Plantations of commodities, Human settlement.

Why trees matter

• Rainforests are the main resting place for 50%-90% of all organisms.

• Most animals need the richness of the rainforest to survive.

• A quarter of are worlds medication comes from trees. The roots of the trees help prevent natural disasters like flooding and landsides.

Prevention

• All though in rainforests planting trees after cutting them down doesn’t help the land but in other areas one tree can help a lot.

• After a large or small amount of trees are cut down plant one in return.

Bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522104856.htm• Casey’s power point