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Amazon Forest
What can we do to help the Amazon Rainforest ?
Donate to organizations
Amazon Watch
Rainforest Alliance
World Wildlife Fund
Help buy land in the rainforest by donating to the rainforest trust
Support Rainforest Action Network
Using of sustainable energy
Plastic and wood recyling
Awareness due the fire forest
Public response
Brazillian actress, Sonia Braga shows her hands painted red, representing blood during a protest in defense of the Amazon while wildfires burn in that region
Members of and indigenous tribe sing a protest organized by Extinction Rebellion at the Brazilian Embassy in London
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japa, UK and US agreed on the aid package to help the committed and environmental protection
See a snake in burned section of the forest near Porto Velho, Brazil
Background forest fire
Burned area involved 906 000 hectares
Fire types
Accidental or malevolent intent
Uncontrolled fire in forests
Repeated uncontrolled fires in forest
Uncontrolled fire open lands
Intentional (illegal and legal)
Pasture maintenance
Farm-follow agriculture
Deforestration
Happened from January to October, 2019
Government action to protect Amazon Rainforest
Brazil deploys military to protect Amazon Rainforest
How did the Amazon Rainforest fires start
High alert
Brazil has declared a state of emergency in the region
One of tribal chief decribed the halting response of Brazil's president
Cattle farmers start to clear forest to make way for ranching and it's not always legal
Farming
"The dry season creates the favourable conditions for the use and spread of fire, but starting a fire is the work of humans, either delibarately or by accident" say Alberto Setzer
What is Amazon Rainforest
Comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical in the world
Area of country involved are Colombia, Brazil, Peru and 17 % of others
The largest rainforest in the world
Lungs of Earth
Estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16 000 species
One in ten known species in the world lives at there.
Source in Amazon Rainforest
Medical
Scientist believe that less than half of 1 % flowering plant species have been studied in detail
People and communities
More than 30 million people including 350 indigenous and ethic group live at Amazon
Depend on nature for agriculture, clothing, and traditional medicines
Threats
Deforestation : Human settlement and development of the land
Causes of deforestation
Valuable hardwoods
Housing space
Resource for cattle pasture
Farming spce
Road works
Medicines and human gain
Impact : High to risk of irreversible changes to the Amazon's Tropical forests
Water supply
Local temperature
Indigenous people