Why Should We Save the Tropical Rain Forests
The rain forest is possibly the most diverse environment in the world it contains 90% of the world animal and plant life and has weather that changes rapidly. But every minute acres of this forest are being cut down.
Loggers are mainly after the trees like mahogany, which sell for more money, but in this process they cut down and destroy masses of other plant life. They have tried to make logging more economic by using selective logging which is searching the forest for these good trees then cutting the specific trees down and dragging them out of the forest, but even this is destructive because to get the trees out they need to bulldoze a path in and out and often destroy more trees than they are selling. In this essay I am going to express my views on deforestation.
The Amazon rainforest is about the size of Europe and every day roughly 51.8 square kilometers are cut down. So that’s is 18,900 square km a year and that’s a lot. One of the main reasons for deforestation is the actions of Brazil, in the 1970 – 80’s Brazil borrowed a large sum of money from MEDCs to develop their country they now owe these MEDCs £50 billion a year and a further £15 million interest every day. So to pay this back they need to use their main resource, which is their forest and the easiest way to get money out of it, is logging. A single mahogany tree is worth £35,000 so they will need to get a lot to pay back the debt but for every mahogany tree that is cut down an average of 30 other trees are cut down. So for brazil to earn £1 million they need to cut down about 888 trees and to pay back their daily interest they need to cut down 13,320 trees a day, but how many trees will they need to cut down to make the £50 billion they owe a year.
An alternative to logging that still uses the forest is tourism they could take people for hikes through the rainforest and camp in it, they could teach people about different animals and show them species that they may not of seen before. They could also show they plants and how to use them like bush craft so they could learn a new skill that could help them in life. But an idea that will drastically stop or at least lessen deforestation is that these MEDCs just drop the debt there is basically no way that Brazil will get enough money to pay them back and anyway The MEDCs don’t really need the money. So dropping the debt won’t make much difference.
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Post CommentLucy Lockett
On April 29, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I agree, the rainforests of the world need to be protected! I enjoyed your article.
Blake English
On May 2, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I also enjoyed this article. May i ask , were did you publish this article thanks
saira
On May 10, 2007 at 5:18 pm
this is so good i am writing a letter to a company which cuts down rainforests; that they shouldnt cut down rainforests. with ur help it would be great
Dima Prinus
On October 1, 2007 at 10:36 am
This is a very interesting information and I personaly didn’t think that there is a big amount of trees being cut down. Why did Brazil have such a big loan from MEDC countries.
jamie k
On October 9, 2007 at 7:32 am
omg this has really opened my eyes i think i will start tio make an effort to save rainforests!!!!
jamie k
On October 9, 2007 at 7:37 am
omg this has really opened my eyes i think i will start tio make an effort to save rainforests!!!!
jamie k
On October 9, 2007 at 7:38 am
omg this has really opened my eyes i think i will start tio make an effort to save rainforests!!!!
melody
On October 23, 2007 at 12:19 pm
i love this article
melody
On October 23, 2007 at 12:20 pm
i love this article
melody
On October 23, 2007 at 12:21 pm
i love this article
melody
On October 23, 2007 at 12:22 pm
i love this article
Martin79
On November 4, 2007 at 8:03 am
This is a great article. Thanks a lot.
B
On November 16, 2007 at 5:22 am
may i ask how acurate is your statistic of how many species are wiped out each year, as i read somewhere it is actually 27000. just wondering which one is factually correct. otherwise helpful article. thanks, it is great to see someone passionate about a worthy cause. i completly support the motion to stop logging rainforests.
Student from best rated school in the area!
On November 30, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I think you ddid a good job!!! BRAVO, but I think you should of but in MORE reasons why this distruction is affecting US.
anonymous
On April 8, 2008 at 7:09 pm
this website is awesome. It gives you some knowledge that you will neddin school essays and it also shows you why you should save the rainforest!
Rock on!
Anonymous 2
On April 18, 2008 at 7:46 am
great article it really helped me with my geography project ty.and i totally agree with your views on the greedy bastards who destroy 1 of the most important places on the planet 4 money.
eric
On September 11, 2008 at 4:54 am
We must do something to save the world great article
Paige
On October 1, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I love this article! the destruction of the rainforests are causing global warming! SO STOP DESTRUCTING THE RAINFOREST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tibkerbell
On October 23, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I think we should all take part in saving the rainforests.Tell freinds to cheak-out the damages that will happen to our world if our rainforests disappear.I have a school report I have to do on rainforests let me tell you this website HELPED!!!!! Thank you very much
colten
On November 5, 2008 at 10:28 am
What?
Hannah & Georgia
On December 10, 2008 at 8:29 am
Why should rainforests be cut down?
Well why?
Because Small parts of Cut down rainforest can provide lots of palm trees & palm trees provide Palm oil.
Palm oil is in nearley everything from Cookies to shower gel.
Without palm oil We wouldent have all the luxuaries we have today.
We want too keep parts of the rainforest For wild life and tribes but We just need a little bit to keep giving YOU the stuff you demand for!!
Hannah & Georgia RGS 7.3
On December 10, 2008 at 8:39 am
Our rainforest is falling apart. And if you were well educated you would know. we need trees to live. So why destroy it to keep mac donalds dissesed cows in why not save it and let the tribes live the life they always wannted as they have so little. If you think about it we live a life of luxury so why dont we give something back.
Hannah & Georgia 7.3 RGS
On December 10, 2008 at 8:54 am
PLEASE SAVE OUR RAINFORESTS
THINK OF THE ANIMALS AND TRIBES!!!!
tara
On January 2, 2009 at 6:31 pm
the essay was gd ryt i kno alot about rainforests n all tht n even a didn’t kno that brazil owes MEDC alot of money why tho
and u r kinda ryt wen u say that they shud just drop the bet but man c’mon who the hell in there ryt mind in todays world drops such a large debt…no-one even looking at this kinda situation
tho there r still quite a few disadvantages of deforesting u cud mention also 1 more fing the “90 percent of the worlds animal and plant life” thing i wud double check on that its more than about 60% a no tht a jus dnt fin its 90
cv
On January 5, 2009 at 12:46 pm
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Cardinalsfan
On February 16, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Very nice. Read my article if you wish titled “Can the Deforestation of the Amazon be Stopped?”
anne
On February 22, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Love this article two thumbs up
jordo
On February 23, 2009 at 9:02 am
this is GAY!! thank i just used 5 min of my i will never get back!
Burn Them All
On February 23, 2009 at 9:03 am
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god dam jews
On February 23, 2009 at 9:08 am
you should all look at the bigger picture
we need this wood for prozzie huts
white power
On February 23, 2009 at 9:08 am
god dam kykes
purple people eaters
On February 26, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I’M BORED.
rami khayal
On March 9, 2009 at 9:30 am
i am a jew
Sarah G
On April 29, 2009 at 3:28 pm
this is what the dumb people hat cut dwn trees think, we need the paper, wood, etc.butttt…… someday we will run out, thats what they dont understand.i agree very much with this passage. we need to show how much we agree by posting a “FOR” if we are for or “AGAINST”so post your comment and we can stop these people who are cutting down the trees.tell everyone you know, we need millions, save the rainforest.post a “FOR” or “AGAINST” we all know someone who cuts down rainforest will see this!!!!!so do something good( it will only take 3 seconds) and post a “FOR” or “AGAINST”
Tyls
On May 8, 2009 at 4:23 am
This is a great article but wat is ur opinion?
takin the piss
On May 21, 2009 at 11:42 am
omg i hate and will kill all the loggers if i could. god damn the tree haters why wont they stop if they carry on all the trees will be gone and we will all die because there will be to much carbon dioxide in the air…. I DONT WANNA DIE :’(.
THE TREES ARE LIVING THINGS IF YOU CHOP ONE DOWN ITS LIKE KILLING A PERSON THERE ALL MURDERERS.
daniella.p
On June 29, 2009 at 9:23 pm
i love rainforests there nice and cool
RYGTREGREGREGREGRE
On August 4, 2009 at 4:07 am
WOW I AM IN SCHOOL AND MY TEACHER SAYS HE HAS TAUGHT US EVERY THING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT RAINFORESTS GETTING DISTROYED
PETER DANIEL
On September 14, 2009 at 6:25 am
THANKXXX SO MUCH THIS HAS HELPED ME DO MY ASSIGMENT AND GO BULLDOGSSSSSSSSSS
fsvlsvls
On October 29, 2009 at 11:57 am
OMG !!!!! you lot are so sad
guest
On December 2, 2009 at 5:40 am
remember everyone rainforests give us oxygen!!!
Jesus
On March 2, 2010 at 11:10 pm
imagine a world without beauty, because of our ignorance we are killing ourselves. if you think about it, in the long run we are letting these companys kill us
singingsally@yahooo.com
On March 4, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I AGREE!!!! WE SHOULD NOT CUT DOWN THE RAIN FOREST B/C ITS\’ DESTROYING HABITATS OF SOME OF THE VERY RARE ANIMALS AND I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH CUTTING IT DOWN.
smartie
On August 30, 2010 at 4:32 am
wow helped me with my assigment and gave me a really good grade thnxs =]
sammantha
On October 31, 2010 at 6:24 pm
i dont cut down all the trees and burn the forest i dnt care in ur face!
Tori 181
On November 18, 2010 at 5:35 am
i was doingmy homework on rainforest and this INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bob jamie
On November 23, 2010 at 7:00 pm
this website was helpful.
jash bherwani
On February 19, 2011 at 8:52 am
awesome article its cool
Andrew Kang
On April 6, 2011 at 11:11 am
It is so awesome.
mamatha
On June 2, 2011 at 1:25 am
gud info!!
rtrey
On January 17, 2012 at 12:44 pm
ithis is really helpful