Rain Forest

Jana Janakieva

DISAPPERING

• We are losing 137 plant and animal species every single day

• 78 million acres lost every year

• Massive deforestation brings with it many consequences

People living in the Rain Forests

• What Is Happening To The Forest People?

Deforestation for agriculture and ranching, mining, and road building all pose major threats to this region. Other threats include introduced species, small-scale logging, wildlife exploitation, and hydroelectric projects. Increased colonization of the area will be of great concern in the near future and will bring more hunting pressure. Uncontrolled tourism is a subject of current debate, though the long-term effects are not yet known.

Forest Fires

FarmingFarming

Paper

Road building

Some facts

• Rainforests currently provide sources for one-fourth of today's medicines

• 70 percent of the plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rainforest

• Eight out of ten children are now saved, rather than eight of ten children dying from leukemia.

• Experts now believe that if there is a cure for cancer and even AIDS, it will probably be found in the rainforest.

Can the Rainforest be saved

• How Much Rainforest Remains?

• Why Won't The Rainforest Grow Back?

• The Solution to Rainforest Destruction

• Raintree - A Leader in Implementing the Solution

Organizations• Amazon Watch

Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Rainforest Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights.www.amazonwatch.org

• Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) Conservation, education, and research in the Amazon basin.www.ethnobotany.org

• Pachamama Alliance Organization to halt the destruction of rainforests and the loss of its indigenous culture and to blend the knowledge and wisdom from indigenous cultures and the modern world.www.pachamama.org

• Tree 4 Life Plant a tree in the Brazilian rainforest.www.tree4life.com

• Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation (ACEER) Promoting conservation of the Peruvian Amazon through educational programs, research, land acquisition, and ecology workshops.www.aceer.org

• BuyTheRainforest.Net Working to buy the land which encompasses the cloud and rain forests in the Amazon region of Peru, and establishing it as an eternal preserve for medical research.www.buytherainforest.net

• Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) Creating a tropical rainforest protected area system with project activity spread out over an area larger than Western Europe.worldwildlife.org/forests/projects/arpa.cfm