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The Gorilla Organization Celebrating 20 years of community-led conservation (1992 - 2012). Our award-winning team of African conservationists help tackle the threats to the world's last remaining gorillas by promoting sustainable livelihoods in villages near the gorilla habitat, providing alternatives to the illegal use of forest resources and nurturing young conservationists of the future.THE Himalayas may never be the same again. The forests growing on the roof of the world are disappearing, and the rate of deforestation is so rapid that a quarter of animal and plant species native to this biodiversity hotspot, including tigers and leopards, could be gone by the end of the century. Worse, the Indian government is oblivious to the problem because official figures erroneously suggest that forest cover will rise rather than fall.
Himalayan Forests Disappearing
Himalaya environment - Himalayas
Economic changes and population increases are threatening the ecology of the Himalayas. In recent years, deforestation in the foothills and the Middle Himalayas and overgrazing on the high pastures has led to soil erosion and other environmental problems. Deforestation is a particular concern in the western Himalayas, where increased demand for firewood, extensive tree trimming in order to feed livestock, and construction of roads in the border regions have increased the destruction rate of forests and the number of landslides.
Negative impacts from tourism occur when the level of visitor use is greater than the environment's ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of change. Uncontrolled conventional tourism poses potential threats to many natural areas around the world. It can put enormous pressure on an area and lead to impacts such as soil erosion, increased pollution, discharges into the sea, natural habitat loss, increased pressure on endangered species and heightened vulnerability to forest fires.
Environmental Impacts of Tourism
Environmental Problems and Efforts to Save Mount Everest - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
In recent years traffic in the Himalayan Region has increased drastically, in large part due to the desire if increased numbers of climbers to ascend Mount Everest. The adverse environmental effects of tourism and increasing expeditions to the Mount Everest are beginning to come to the attention of the world. In response, the Nepalese government, climbing teams, and environmentalists are making efforts to improve the situation on the roof of the world.
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Problems - Loss of Species
Problem: Extinction of Plant and Animal Species Massive extinctions have occurred five times during the earth's history, the last one was the extinction of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. Scientists are calling what is occurring now, the sixth mass extinction . The loss of species is about losing the very web of life on Earth.
Ten Most Endangered Animals
W e mentioned in another article that picking a Ten Most Endangered Animals list was a tough job. For every critically endangered creature you select, you must leave out hundreds of other animals that are in just as much jeopardy. That’s why, despite the photo at the left, we chose not to include the giant panda on our roster of the world’s ten most endangered animals.
Rainforest Deforestation
" Why is there so much rainforest deforestation going on. . " It hasn't always been so.
Impacts of Deforestation on the Amazon | Greenpeace USA
The Ecological Importance of Amazon The images of fires raging out of control in the Eastern Amazon state of Pará are a powerful symbol of the way mankind continues to plunder and destroy nature. Of the Earth's original forests, only about one fifth remain untouched.
What are Some of the Effects of Deforestation?
Deforestation is the process by which a heavily tree-filled area becomes devoid of trees. This can occur in a variety of circumstances both natural and man-made, and often severely impacts the local environment. Deforestation can lead to serious effects on the surrounding ecosystem , and many experts believe it can also have a negative effect on the global environment. One of the major effects of deforestation is loss of biodiversity.
WASHINGTON, DC-- The Amazon Basin, home to largest rainforest in the world, is known for its astounding variety of plants and animals. But the rainforest may be also be home to an even more overwhelming variety of previously unknown bacteria and this diversity, just as with plants and animals, may be jeopardized by deforestation, says a report in the July issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The report, by James Borneman and Eric Triplett at the Agronomy Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, describes a study in which soil samples were taken from a mature rainforest as well as an adjacent pastureland that was the result of deforestation. The soils were sampled, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), to isolate bacterial DNA. The researchers identified 100 different DNA sequences, 98 from bacteria and two from another domain of microorganisms known as archea.
(7/29/97) Amazon Deforestation Risk to "Overwhelming" Number of Unknown Species
The Amazon is the largest and most incredible of the world's rainforests. Where is the Amazon rainforest? Located in northern part of South America it spans 9 different countries including 60% of Brazil.
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Facts « Deforestation in the Amazon
Here are some facts (disturbing and informative) about the Amazon rainforest. Enjoy! -Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. -One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second. -Nearly half of the world’s species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation. -Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation.Deforestation
The rain forest is a natural resource that is a necessity in the world. Unfortunately it is disappearing at an increasingly high rate of more than 29 million acres per year. Many of the countries that have rain forests are less industrialized nations with fewer natural resources therefore using their one large resource, the rain forest. However, deforestation has many consequences such as : global warming. The forest networking project discusses the consequences of deforestation concerning primate species that are threatened throughout the world. forest networking project When deforestation occurs, the release of greenhouse gasses and the earh's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide are effected.Earth's vanishing medicine cabinet: rain forest destruction and its impact on the pharmaceutical industry. | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared
Todos tem direito ao meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado.(1) Everyone has the right to an ecologically balanced environment. In 1988, the Brazilian Constitutional Assembly incorporated this imperative into the Brazilian Constitution as part of a chapter on environmental protection.(2) After hundreds of years of environmental ignorance, our planet's inhabitants have experienced a growth of environmental awareness. One global environmental tragedy garnering substantial recent attention is the depletion of the planet's tropical rain forests.(3) In addition to eternally altering the human environment, rain forest destruction poses a serious threat to both the pharmaceutical industry and individuals in need of medical care. A substantial portion of existing pharmaceuticals are plant-based and animal-based, and the pharmaceutical industry continues to explore additional species for medicinal potential, particularly in tropical regions.Rainforest
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