The Amazon Rainforest is the biggest forest in the world and home to thousands of different plants and animals. This enormous biome covers nine countries including: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, and Guyana. Inside the Amazon Rainforest, some common products you can find are latex, minerals like iron, manganese, uranium, copper, nickel and gold, diamonds and other less valuable gems, hundreds of different kinds of woods and many medicinal plants.
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| The span of the Amazon Rainforest |
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Newly cleared section of the Amazon Rainforest |
For this reason, many animals, plants, and people who call the Amazon Rainforest home, are forced to adapt or move to another safer location. Animals who live in the Amazon Rainforest like the jaguar, three-toed sloth, and some species of the poison dart frog, are endangered because their habitat is shrinking due to human intervention. According to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), species have been disappearing 1,000 times the natural rate and an estimated 34000 plant and 5200 animal species face extinction.
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| Jaguar |
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| Three-toed Sloth |
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| Posion Dart Frog |
STARO, also known as Save the Amazon Rainforest Organization's mission is to support Brazil in exploring and preserving the Amazon Rainforest to provide a sustainable living environment for animals, plants, and people who live there. They strive to do this by carrying out agricultural projects with the local forest dwellers to enable them to live in harmony with the forest and by working with the Brazilian Instituto Caiua de Gestado Ambiental (ICGA), an environmental charity, in fostering the exploration of the rich biodiversity and ethno-botanical value of the Amazon Rainforest.
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| United Nations Environment Programme |
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| The Play For Life Campaign |
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| Play For Life Campaign Poster |
I have commented on:
http://ankerlovesbio.blogspot.com/2010/09/human-intervention-of-biodiversity-in.html
http://vanezzabioblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/unit-2-bio-blog.html
Sources
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/amazon/index.html
http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/501.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Amazon_Rainforest_Organisation
http://www.unep.org/
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_endangered_animals_live_in_the_Amazon_Rainforest
http://www.staro.org/index.php?id=home
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=630&ArticleID=6652&l=en
3 comments:
My favourite part of the blog was when u said " entire football field every four seconds!". Its shocking how much damage is being done to such a beautiful eviroment like the Amazon Rainforest. Its pretty ironic how people are distroying the forst, and Building rain forst cafes on top of it.
Yay deforestation!!!! This problem with the rainforest is much like my Panda bear problem. Because of deforestation animals are being forced out of the natural habitats and have to live in places that they aren't familiar with. Deforestation is a huge problem and I like how you emphasized the way that animals are being affected. I also never knew about the Save the rainforest organization. I also have not seen a three toed sloth, very cute animal.
Hey DEBBIE!!!
I really enjoyed reading your blog about the Amazon rainforests. Reading it made me think that there aren’t just endangered animal species we’re losing, but also valuable common products. Like you mentioned; latex, minerals, gems, and very importantly; plants. These provide us with medicine to cure deceases that require exotic plants such as the ones that grow in the rainforests. What shocked me most reading your blog was to find out that rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 6 million hectares per year, and that it’s equivalent to an entire football field every four seconds is even more disturbing.
Your blog taught me new things about the rainforests. Let’s not forget that it isn’t just the animals, plants that are endangered, but also ca. 1000 different indigenous groups. These people have been living here for the longest time, and we think its wrong to destroy the ecosystems of animals, what about the human race, our own kind. Where are the animals and human beings supposed to go if their homes that has been part of this earth for centuries, and grown into being the world’s oldest and most diverse ecosystem gets destroyed.
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