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Rainforests (Sustainable Management (Conservation & Education (:check:…

- - - - Sustainable alternative to clear felling
      - Allows regrowth of trees
    - - Has to be managed carefully
      - 30-40 year cycle
  - - - Rainforest remains consistent
    - - Trees take 30-40 years to grow
      - Rainforest doesn't expand
  - - - Prevents any tree felling
      - Increase understanding of rainforests
    - - Only protects certain areas
      - Needs to be reinforced & secured
  - - - Benefit local communities through jobs
      - Governments benefit without deforesting
    - - Long term profit, not immediate
      - Tourists may damage the environment
  - - - Combined efforts increases survival chance
      - Global rather than local effect
    - - Some countries may not agree/equivocate
  - - - No longer have to deforest to pay debt
      - Can concentrate on developing education and awareness
    - - May fall into debt again
      - May not honour agreements
- - - - Bakun Dam (205m) highest damn outside China
      - Producing electricity in 2011 after 50 year delay
      - 700km2 forest/farmland flooded
      - More dams planned to boose supplies
    - - Malaysia largest exporter of palm oil in the world
      - 10 year tax incentive to expand crop
      - Large areas of rainforest cleared for plantations
    - - Largest exporter of tropical wood in 1980s
      - Large scale clear felling leaves just bare soil
      - Road construction required to transport logs
    - - Mineral extraction common in Peninsular Malaysia
      - Open cast mining requires everything to be cleared
      - Drilling for oil and gas in Borneo
  - - - Animals lose habitats
      - Forced to live in smaller areas
      - Increase competition
      - Medicinal plants killed
      - Main Range, Peninsular Malaysia
        
        Over 6000 species
        
        25% all plant species in Malaysia
    - - Transipiration from trees causes rain
      - Fewer trees = less rainfall
      - Loss of carbon sinks
      - Fewer tress = less evaporation = higher temperatures
    - - Roots no longer hold soil together
      - Soil easily blown away/washed away
      - Decrease leaf litter so fewer nutrients
    - - Can create jobs
      - Resources sell at high prices
      - Water courses polluted by equipment
      - Defacing of attraction decreases tourists
      - Medicianlly beneficial plants may go extinct