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Rainforest Revision (Location of Rainforests (Between tropic of cancer and…

- - - - Sell the resources for money
      - Electricity for the people in the country
      - Land for cattle ranching and food
      - Discovery and hunting of animals
      - Getting new chemicals from the rainforest
      - Fuels
      - Job creation
      - Companies pay taxes
      - Transport improvement
    - - Contributing to climate change
      - Disease in forest
      - Destroying habitats
      - Only getting a percentage if the profits
      - Not all the electricity works
      - Water becoming acidic and corrodes the dams in which are producing the electricity
      - Deforestation faster than aforestation
      - Loss of biodiversity
      - Soil erosion
      - Loss of culture
- - - - Supports the tall trees the roots are shallow and snake across the forest floor in search for nutrients and minerals
    - - Equatorial Rainfall is so heavy that trees can get easily damaged during storms. Their solution is to shed the rain as quickly as possible. Drip tips act like a spout, channelling the water away in a quick and controlled manner
    - - Lianas - are vine like climber plants that snake up and across the the canopy in search of sunlight
    - - plants that grow on trees high in the canopy in search of light and nutrients
  - - - The three toed sloth is the slowest moving mammal on earth
      - Using it’s strong curved claws it hangs upside down in the branches of the canopy and can sleep for up to 18 hours a day
      - It’s shaggy brown fur can become so dirty that algae begins to grow and turn it a hint of green
      - This colour and it’s amazing stillness makes it hard to find
    - - Poison arrow frogs live in the moist shaded areas of the forest floor
      - They are very small, only ½ an inch in length
      - Their bright vibrant colours act as a camouflage and warn enemies of it’s extremely poisonous skin
    - - Uses it’s powerful beak not only for cracking hard nut shells
      - Also as a third limb for climbing
    - - The Acrobat of the rainforest
      - Using their long narrow hook-like hands and tail the spider monkeys can swing through the canopy at an extremely quick speed
    - - Escapes danger by rearing up on its hind legs and races across the water so fast that it doesn’t fall in
- - - - Largest exporter of tropical wood in the 1980s
      - Clear felling where all trees are chopped down in the area was common
      - More selective logging now
    - - Mining is common in peninsular Malaysia
      - Cleared for road construction and mining
      - Recent drilling for oil and gas
    - - Transmigration
        
        People moving to the rainforest
      - 15000 hectares of rainforest was felled
      - Set up plantations
    - - Palm oil exporter
      - 10 year tac incentives
      - Areas of land converted to plantations
    - - Slash and burn uses fire to burn the land and makes the soil infertile
  - - - Development of land for mining, farming and energy will lead to jobs both directly and indirectly
      - The development of roads opens new areas for industrial development and tourism
      - Tourism could decrease as the forest is destroyed
      - Hydroelectric power will prove cheap and plentiful energy
      - Potential cure for disease could be lost
    - - Gains
        
        Development of land for mining, farming and energy will lead to jobs both directly and indirectly
        
        Companies will pay taxes to the government which can be used to improve public services such as education and water supply
        
        Improved transport infrastructure opens up new areas dor industrial development and tourism
        
        Products such as palm oil and rubber provide materials for processing industries
        
        Hydroelectric power will provide cheap and plentiful energy
        
        Minerals such as gold are very valuable
      - Losses
        
        Pollution of water sources and an increasingly dry climate may result in water shortages
        
        Fires can cause harmful pollution, they can burn out of control, destroying vast areas of valuable forest
        
        Rising temperatures could devastate some forms of farming such as growing tea, fruit and flowers
        
        Plants that could bring huge medical benefits and high profits may become extinct
        
        Climate change could have economic costs as people have to adapt to living in a warmer world
        
        The number of tourists attracted by rainforests could decrease