Rainforests
- Created by: freyawoolley
- Created on: 23-02-15 19:47
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- Rain forests
- Always green, continuous growing season
- Soil- latosol
- Red, yellow colour, 20-30m deep, very narrow layer of organic material- humus
- Dependant on the decayed leaf litter
- Deforestation
- No trees to absorb CO2
- erosion of soil, exposed to heavy rain
- Dependant on the decayed leaf litter
- reasons- economic
- iron ore mine, The carajas mine
- 7.2 billion metric tons of iron
- Para in North Brazil
- Creates 7000 jobs
- iron ore mine, The carajas mine
- Social impacts
- The Huaorani, Amazon tribe
- Losing homes and land
- Land and rivers destroyed
- Forced to leave -reservation and change culture and lifestyle
- Spread of diseases
- Environmental impacts
- intrusive, sheer scale
- Intrusive, sheer size, lose species of plants, habitats, carbon sink, soil quality deteriates
- Shifting cultivation
- Sustainable agriculture, Amazon rainforest, central and west Africa
- Sustainable, less impact, greater chance of recovery
- primitive tools, less harmful
- ash spread natural fertiliser
- no chemicals, relocate give chance to regenerate.
- Selective logging
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