Bookmarks 100 : Stop the Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

 

The Amazon Rainforest Is A Vital Part Of Life On Earth With Out It Global Warming Would Accelerate Dramatically.

Previously the forest covered 14% of earth’s surface and now it is only about 6%. By this speed the forest will disappear within 40 years.

The main reasons for deforestation are logging of tropical hardwoods for exportation (like teak and mahagony, timber, ply wood), cattle grazing, farming, road building, hydroelectric dams, mining.

Another problem is damage due to reduced rainfall caused by global warming.

The World Wildlife Fund states that the point of no return, from which recovery will be impossible, is only 15 to 25 years away. 

Here are Photos of all the trees that are hundreds of thousands of years old that they have cut down which accounts to tones and tones of logs
And thousands of acres of cattle and agricultural land