He had the opinion that this plan would ruin the jungle and the environment of the locality.

In the beginning he was alone but afterwards the locality people also started joining him.

The government kept Mark in jail for few weeks to keep him silent. Not only threaten him with police but also made him expel from his house by pressurizing the owner.

But all these troubles could not shake his courage. 47 year Mark took his case in the court; there it was proved that this plan is against the environmental safety policies of the government.

During all this it was revealed that Gabon will get only 10% profit from this plan. Because of these consecutive attacks the Gabon’s government compelled keeping the contract on hold.

The residents of Ivindo initially thought that this plan would bring many employments and infrastructure but now they agree with the Mark’s opinion.

Mark determines this change in the attitudes as his big win.

Look at the Mark’s courage that despite being handicapped took tussle with the government and at last compelled it bending on knees.

By Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Content Writer

        It took us more than five hours drive from the city to reach a rural area in Laguna where Mount Banahaw was located. Mount Banahaw was known as a mystical forest and it was the source of very clear and cold water of the falls. And at the foot of that Mountain lies the midst of rainforest where a very beautiful falls called Majayjay can be seen. The water from the falls was so refreshing as it was cold and we need to adopt to that temperature to be able to enjoy our swimming time in there. And we know that  we need to observe responsible tourism in a rainforest to keep the beauty of the place and maintain the cleanliness of the falls. Specially that there are lots of tourists visiting the rainforest and the businesses of the locals there depend their income from those tourists coming.
        
        Some ways how we follow responsible tourism in a rainforest are making sure that we put our garbage on the proper bins and never throw anything on the falls. And when we set our tent,  we make sure that we place it on the designated area so that we would not destroy any small plants or affect any creatures on the rainforest.  We also make sure to clean our place when we packed up already to ensure that no thrash will be left by us. We can really be responsible tourists and be able to preserved the beauty of rainforest for others to enjoy it too.

Exploitation of the Amazon

People clear the Rainforest for many different reasons:

·       Agriculture

·       Houses

·       Roads

·       Logging

·       Mining

·       Construction

·       Use of income

·       Food

·       Medicines

People may want to exploit the Amazon because it brings benefits to Brazil and it’s population. Exploiting the Amazon provides food, jobs and money and all in all, make Brazil a wealthier country.

Agriculture: Positive benefits of clearing the Rainforest are split into Small-Scale and Large-Scale farming. Farming on a small-scale provides food for the Amazon villagers, but on a large-scale, it can be sold and bring in income and provide jobs for the growing population.

The land for the agriculture gets cleared by either shifting cultivation, by ingenuous tribes, or large-scale clearance which destroys the Rainforest and does not grow back. Shifting cultivation involves a small area of land being cleared and then the remaining vegetation being burned, providing nutrients for the soil, from the ash. The soil will then be fertile for a few years and when the fertility is exhausted, the tribe will more on and the Rainforest will be regenerated.

However, large-scale clearing does not regenerate. The Rainforest is cut down and left and the damage is so bad and immense, that the trees and vegetation do not grow back. It also often leads to deforestation. This breaks the Eco-System and habitats are destroyed.

Mining: The mining industry is highly important to the expanding of the Brazilian economy. Minerals known to have been found the Amazon are diamonds, aluminium ore, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold. The incoming population often work in the highly competitive and packed gold mines on a very low wage. The mercury and sediment, used in mines, gets washed into the Amazon Rivers which pollutes them. They have also been polluted with oil, litter and human waste. All around the mines, vegetation and habitats have been destroyed. However, larger companies have been taking steps to protect the environment, by careful planning and replanting.

The footage from the Brazilian rainforest appears strange figure. The picture shows the blue glow and a bit from her alien.

Real evidence of the existence of aliens, or is it a fake?

A few shots, you get two British tourists, who recently visited the region of Manaus. A short video was then obtained from this pair of writer Mike Cohen, who is devoted to the issue of paranormal phenomena.

Quote:

Michael, who runs the paranormal website allnewsweb.com, said: “This is highly compelling footage that will be hard to discredit.

information with video:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3886122/Alien-filmed-in-Brazil-rainforest.html

Little more than six percent of the earth’s surface is rainforest, yet within them are more than half of the world’s plant and animal life.  These areas are called rainforests because of the immense amount of rainfall every year.  The climates within the rainforests are normally hot and humid, which helps the plant species grow thick and lush.

There are rainforests on every continent in the world except Antarctica.  There are also large masses of rainforest located in the Hawaiian Islands, Belize, Fiji, Madagascar, and other tropical islands in the world.  Some of the products that we use every day come from these rainforests like vanilla, chocolate, coffee, rubber, nuts, hard woods, and tropical oils that are found in shampoos and other personal products.  Deforestation has become an unusually complicated topic because of the harvesting of these valuable resources. 

The purpose of this article is not to give one side of the deforestation issue an advantage over the other, or the other way around for that matter.  Nor is there any purpose in shocking the reader with statistics and scare tactics on the rainforests, environment, or ozone layer.  Rather, this article is written with an entirely different purpose in mind altogether. 

When I began writing, I was focused mainly on one Internet site.  The problem with that is that there are always at least two sides to every story; in a story such as this one with international implications, there are many facets.  When I began gathering information for this article, I thought that I was simply reporting what I read, and though I cited the source of this information, I didn’t realize that in writing about it the first time, I wasn’t giving justice to a whole other side of the coin.  The other side is the truth. 

I’m not saying that the source of my material is the truth or not the truth.  When I decided to change the article in its entirety, I did so after speaking with a very trusted friend.  There was no advice for or against the issue at hand, but merely that I should investigate further and make sure that the source I was quoting was not a proprietary source for one side of the issue or the other.  I took that to heart and am very grateful for the insight. 

In the 1980’s, logging companies in the northwest were put on an alert status and investigated, watched and reported about in various newspapers.  The articles were not especially kind to the men and women trying to do their best working in a field that, by design, was a source of contention because it was the logging industry; taking from the earth an important resource.  My experience is limited on this subject due to my age when I was located in the northwest and also because I didn’t personally work in the industry.  I did, however, have several friends and a few extended family members working in the logging industry and gathered information about the issues from them. 

Logging and clearing land changes the landscape even when handled in the correct fashion.  It’s simply untrue that logging won’t make the land look or behave differently.  However, there are ways of replacing important resources when those resources are needed for the use of man in every day life, including trees.  They are gifts of the earth.  The problems come when man forgets that they are intended for use and not abuse.  This complacency also causes a sort of trickle-down effect for all others harvesting these products, even when they are doing it correctly and legitimately, with permission and license from their respective governments.

Think back to reports of the deforestation of the Amazon in every newspaper in the world.  There are even a few movies that have been released on the subject.  The real concern is that the ecosystems contained in the rainforests are critical to the climates of the world; so much so that disturbing the acreage could create changes in the temperatures across the equator.  This statement doesn’t include the millions of species of flora and fauna that live and eat there.  They need the four layers of the rainforest in order to survive.

At this point, the real purpose of this article will become clear.  It is in the reporting of activity that those who read the reports can become emotionally involved.  Newspapers and magazines, electronic magazines and free-style articles are all written for the purpose of getting someone, their reader, to understand and believe in their point of view.  Before drawing a conclusion, this same reader should do more digging.  Investigation doesn’t have to take a lot of time and it is an important step; one that shouldn’t be ignored if the reader wants the whole truth and not just the amount of truth the writer gives.  In some instances, the writer hasn’t done enough digging; something this writer should have done before beginning the first draft of this article. 

In the last twenty years, satellites have been capturing images of logging and harvesting in the Amazon rainforests.  Are these images part of a problem in the Amazon or are they simply the images of a logging operation that is legitimate, working with a permit from the government and with permission to do so?  Is this a one-time cutting or is it a poaching operation?  Has this logging company replanted to give the rainforest new life in the future?  These are questions a person must ask before becoming angered and joining a group with extreme ideals.  There can be no harm in finding answers to these and other questions before taking such a step.

In preparing to write this article, I admit that I was one-sided and didn’t bother to check other sources for my material.  The images I saw were disturbing, to say the least.  It was the images that caught my attention at first, but then the words that accompanied these images made me angry.  It wasn’t until I spoke with my friend that I began to see that this might have been the intention of the author of the website that I visited.  The realization that I had given in to these emotions due to what the writer wanted me to read made me angry in a new way.  Had I been given the truth or had I been given just enough so that I’d see the issue the way they wanted me to see it?  I have a feeling that the latter is true.    

There very well may be a problem with deforestation in the rainforests of the world, particularly the rainforests of the Amazon.  In fact, I am very sure that there is.  Selective logging is a real practice.  My question is this: is selective logging a legitimate operation performed by companies in Brazil and other Amazonian countries with permits and good practices that allow hardwoods to be harvested with as little disturbance of the surrounding trees and areas as possible?  And are these companies becoming targets of environmental groups that report only those findings that further their own causes or are these images really those of poachers trying to take advantage of a resource field, not knowing and possibly not caring that they are being viewed by others? 

There are good practices in harvesting and logging products from the rainforests of the world.  There are companies that do it legitimately and correctly and can have great satisfaction in knowing that they’ve been able to harvest usable goods from the earth and then subsequently replaced a valuable, renewable resource for the future.  My point is this: as a result of reading disturbing material reported on these and other activities, take great care in collecting data and factual material before drawing extreme conclusions about one side of the issue or the other.  In this, there is more of a balance and anger can be avoided altogether. 

I have listed below the links of the two sites I visited.  The first I used simply to learn about the layers of the rainforest and the second link is the written account of selective logging.  Feel free to peruse at leisure, but please heed the advice given to me and get more information before drawing any conclusions.      

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/whlayers.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/revealed-the-true-devastation-of-the-rainforest-511847.html   published 2005

In the 1980s and 1990s, Borneo suffered a stunning transition. Forest-clearcut forest to the point that never happened in human history. Borneo rain forest move to industrialized countries like Japan and the United States in the form of furniture for the garden, paper pulp and chopsticks. Initially, most of the wood was taken from the northern island of Borneo, then forests in southern and central island of Borneo.

Today the forests of Borneo are but a shadow of the legends of the past and threatened its sustainability.

Is Borneo We still will remain green until the next generations we start growing up ..?
Only the desire and determination we will answer all of that …!

Not the time for us to split defense but this time we combine embroidery to go to Go Green Borneo Island.

Rain Forests is made up of many tall trees. It has a warm climate and rains alot, some RainForests have rain more than an inch a day! RainForests are found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Central & South America. They are located in the Tropic, the region between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. The largest RainForest is the “Amazon RainForests”.

What does a “RainForest” need to make it a “RainForest”:

-The location should be in the “Tropics”

-Should Recive more than 80 inches of rain every year

-Should have a Canopy

-Should have a high level of biodiversity (life)

-Symbotic Relationships (When 2 different species help each other, for example, ant builds nest along plant, ants   nest provides protection)

Why are RainForests important?

The reasons RainForests are important:

-Protect against Droughts, Flood, and Erosion

-Help keep the world’s climate stabilized

-Provide home to many organisms

-A huge source for medicine and foods

-Support tribal people

-Keep the water cycle balanced

-A fun/intresting place to visit

Why are they disapearing?

Why they are disapearing:

-Gives wood

-Replace it with farms

-Support home for poor farmers

-Cattle/Live Stock

-Road Construction

How we can save them.

Some steps for saving rainforests:

-Support Companies that minimize the enviorment

-Restore damage by planting a tree on the damaged RainForest

-Establish parks to save WildLife and RainForests

-Teach others about the importance of the enviorment

-Encourage people by telling them to perserve the enviorment

In recent years a lot has been said about the massive deforestation of the Amazon, the effects of global warming on the largest rain forest on the planet, and about the destructive action of the people on this piece of bad land. There are always measures to stop these actions were also the best and the photos below show a reality that many try to hide, perhaps the desire to minimize the effect on audiences around the world and the fact that the Amazon rainforest is dying …

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I remember once, at the zoo, I entered the rain forest simulation out of curiosity (apparently curiosity was stronger than fear), and I was amazed by the multitude of plants and animals. As much as I wanted to stay and look a bit more around, I simply couldn’t tolerate more than 20 minutes the warm, humid air in there.  I was thinking how it would be to visit the real one, the biggest rain forest, the Amazon. It is so said that wonderful places like that are being destroyed at an alarming rate by the human hand. The Amazonian forest is a treasure yet to be discovered in many regards. Its plants and vegetation are being used more and more in the pharmaceutical industry to produce medicine that fights even incurable diseases like cancer. But if the deforestation continues with the same pace, this natural treasure will soon disappear.  

For all the tropical jungle admirers like me, below follow some interesting facts about the Amazon.

1.      The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest remaining natural resource and it represents 54% of the total rainforests left on the globe.

2.      Its live force is the Amazon river, which flows for more than 4,000 miles to discharge its waters in the Atlantic ocean.

3.      Producing 20% of the Earth’s oxygen has righteously given it the name “The Lungs of Earth”

4.      Nearly  90% of Amazon rainforest plants which are used by Amazon natives have not been studied by modern science

5.       Amazonia receives about 9 feet of rain every year.

6.      It is believed that the canopy of Amazon may contain half of the world’s species. The Amazon forest is home to over 500 mammals, 175 lizards and over 300 other reptiles species. One third of the world’s birds live in Amazon.

7.      There may fifty or so Amazon tribes, which live the depths of the Amazon rainforest, that have never had contact with the civilized world.

8.      Unfortunately, more than 20% of the Amazon has been destroyed and is forever gone.

9.      With the current rate of destruction, it is estimated that rain forests could be gone in 40 years.

10.  16% of all the world’s river water flows in the Amazon river delta.

Sources: Unique South-America Travel Experience

               Blueplanetbiomes.org

Concern over the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest having a devastating effect on the environment, animals, and mankind is proving to be quite real. Since the early 21st century deforestation has claimed more than 28,000 square miles of trees in the rainforests. What are some of the causes for the deforestation and how do they effect the world population?

Causes of Rain Forest Deforestation

There are varied causes of the rain forest deforestation. Expansion of soy and cattle farms, the price in land values going up, and infrastructure improvement projects play a part in the destruction of the rain forest trees. The future will only see more pressures from countries developing to cut down rain forest trees despite the best efforts from conservationists. So how does this affect you and me?

Effects of Rain Forest Deforestation

How are we affected by cutting down of rain forest trees? Cutting down trees increases the amounts of the chemical carbon dioxide in the air. The chemical is known for increasing the temperature of the atmosphere causing a warming effect on the earth. When this occurs places that are normally cold increase in temperature and ice melts increasing the fresh water in saltwater areas and flooding just to name a few of the effects.

Then there are the animals and people who use the rain forest as their homes. Rain 

Image via Wikipedia

forests are home to a wide variety of animals that may become extinct due to deforestation some species already have, which means future generations will only read about them in books. But there are not just animals and people affected there is also plant life that is used for medicinal purposes.

Not Just Animals and Plants are Effected

A variety of Indian tribes live in the rainforests and call them home. Deforestation means they lose their way of life. From infancy they have been taught to live off of the land, respect the rainforest and the inhabits living there. Their food and other materials they use in their day to day living will be affected without the rainforests. If the rainforests are destroyed then these tribes to may very well become extinct taking their knowledge and wisdom with them.

By destroying the rain forests few gain and all suffer. The quality of the air we all breathe is affected. The change in temperature can have devastating effects on the environment, the weather, and mankind. Animals, plant life, people many be facing extinction because of the deforestation of the rain forests.