Why Rainforests? - Rainforest Partnership
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Protecting tropical rainforests
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Why protect rainforests?• Home to 30 million people
• Carbon Sinks
– Absorb carbon from atmosphere
• Regulate Water cycle
• Lungs of the earth
– Circulates 40% of theworld’s oxygen
• Biodiversity
– More than 50% percent of terrestrial biodiversity
• Nature’s Pharmacy
– Source of 70% ofanti-cancer drugs
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Where they are
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One hundred years ago tropical rainforests covered 14% of land mass.
Today it is less than 6%.
Almost 20% of all carbon emissions are caused due to the burning and cutting of rainforests, annually, globally.
That’s more than from all cars, trucks, trains and planes combined.
What‘s at Stake
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How much rainforest are we losing?
93,000 sq miles of area was deforested between 2000 and 2010.That’s as big as:
- United Kingdom
- Third of Texas
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Why are we losing them?
• Limited income options• Small scale: pasture, subsistence farming• Larger scale:
– Logging, oil and mineral extraction– Cattle ranching– Soybean, corn, palm oil production
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Protecting forests, an economic issue for Texas?
“Clearing forests may enrich those who are doing it, but over the long run it impoverishes the planet as a whole. Rainforests are an important prop to continental water-cycles. Losing the Amazon rainforest could reduce rainfall across the Americas, with potentially dire consequences for farmers as far away as Texas.”
The Economist, Sept 23, 2010 print edition
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What Rainforest Partnership does
We work with forest communities to help them make an income that allows them to protect their forests.
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The RP modelPartner with
communities.
Engage and Educate US Consumers
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A different approach:
Locally Hired
Project Manager
Native Local Community
Resources
Education
Sustainable
Businesses for a
Sustainable
Future
Long term sustainability of alternative income generation and forest protection