Amazon Rainforest
- Created by: daisysykes
- Created on: 22-06-18 14:35
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- Amazon Rainforest
- Infertile soils because trees soak up food so quickly
- Indigenous People
- 1000's of tribes
- Only 2% light on the floor
- 9 Countries mainly Brazil that the rainforest is in. - South America
- Insects, Sloths, Howler Monkeys
- Largest Freshwater place in the worlD - lots of CO2
- HOT! (Over 26 degrees c) and with heavy rain - 2000mm!
- Deforestation - Mines - Dams - Roads
- Near The Equator - Discontinuous Layer
- Tall trees - few branches
- 60% of the rain forest in the world is the Amazon
- Lianas, epiphytes, food from air
- Brazil > Developing Roads
- Canopy - Birds & Butterflies
- Teak Tree - ^ 1.5m - 30 - 40 m
- Between Tropic Of Cancer and Tropic Of Capricorn
- SOLUTIONS :
- 1. Debt Reduction
- 3. EcoToursim - Small scale
- 5. Education - Reduce demand for rain forest wood
- 4. Sustainable energy away from Amazon - Solar
- 2. Selective Logging - Cut only mature trees
- Mammal - 400 Speices - Birds 1,300 Species - Plants 40,000 Species - Insects 30,000,000 Species
- Belo Monte HEP - Dam
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