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They explain not only their dependence on the tree, but also the importance of the tree to the world. The man wakes up and sees the beauty of the rainforest. He picks up his axe and the word of the rainforest creatures echo through his mind. He has a moral dilemma. There is the tension in the story as he decides what to do.
The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. The Amazon biome has lost more than 85 million hectares (211 million acres ...
It is important to conserve the rainforest because many resources for things we use everyday come from the rainforest, including rubber for tires and spices such as cinnamon and many other common items. [9] It is imperative to life on earth that the rainforest be conserved, as the trees take in carbon dioxide to provide oxygen.
No rainforest today can be considered to be undisturbed. [33] Human-induced deforestation plays a significant role in causing rainforests to release carbon dioxide, [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] as do other factors, whether human-induced or natural, which result in tree death, such as burning and drought. [ 37 ]
The idea of harvesting rainforest fruits is simple, but scaling up a sustainable business isn’t always easy. Just getting fruit to market before it spoils can be a huge challenge.
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. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Thousands of trees have been planted by volunteers as part of a new temperate rainforest in south Devon. More than 2,500 native trees have been planted so far this winter at Devon Wildlife Trust's ...
The moisture from the forests is important to the rainfall in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina [45] Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest region was one of the main reason that cause the severe Drought of 2014–2015 in Brazil [46] [47] For the last three decades, the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's intact tropical forests has fallen ...