Amazon Rainforest Notes

• From 2005 to 2012, Brazil managed to reduce up to 83% of deforestation.”
• Laws were relaxed and deforestation increased by about 200 percent from 2017-2018
• Some of the people who are in power do not care about the environment.
• People are taking over indigenous land and selling it to cattle ranchers and soybean conglomerates.
• Amazon rainforest creates 20% of the earth’s oxygen
• Home to 30% of planets species
• It Helps treats some of the most deadly diseases
• Massive forest fires in the Amazon rainforest
• logging, mining, and more are deforesting the Amazon rainforest at a rate of 3 football fields per minute!
• Drives the South America economy
• Without the Amazon rainforest, we would be losing our biodiversity
• People are destroying Amazon Rainforest with fires, taking trees down, mining
• In the rainforest, there are cancer-fighting treatments and more treatments
• Climate change if Amazon Rainforest dies
• No source of oxygen if the Amazon rainforest dies
• It will give carbon dioxide if dies
• Amazon Rainforest is called the lungs of Earth!
• Land grabbers sometimes set huge fires to as much land as they can.
• Agriculture (livestock) is being used in the land that was once part of the forest.
• The current president wants to promote farming and get rid of the protected indigenous land

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