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we can reduce our paper waste and continue recycling and reusing paper objects 

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we can reduce our paper waste and continue recycling and reusing paper objects 

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- Javier

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we can plant trees and protect the trees to prevent deforestation

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we can plant trees and protect the trees to prevent deforestation

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-Javier

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we can convince others to cut down only the dying trees and not the living trees. we can also ask them to plant a tree for every one they cut down

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we can convince others to cut down only the dying trees and not the living trees. we can also ask them to plant a tree for every one they cut down

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we can ask the public to support the movement to protect the trees 

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we can ask the public to support the movement to protect the trees 

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Protection of forested areas refer to the setting of laws to protect an area from unfavorable activities. The amount of deforestation decreased from due to the protection of forested areas act. Unsustainable logging and agricultural practices and banned in these areas through laws or other measures. Penalties such as fines are given out to those who do not obey the law. These are some main reasons for the reduction of deforestation. Unfortunately, protected areas are not fenced and are still vulnerable to human impact. And in Singapore, there is a need to balance development and diversity conservation in such a small urban setting.

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Satellite monitoring is a great help in decreasing rates of deforestation, as every act of deforestation occurring can be quickly tracked by the high-tech rangers who travel across the sky in helicopters, holding a screen that has excess to a satellite monitoring programme called DETER satellite. it is a high-tech satellite launched for the sake of tracking all the deforestation activities in real time, allowing the helicopters to swoop down and catch deforestation happenings as soon as possible.

This method has been quite successful, due to the fact that as said in the video, "deforestation activities in the Brazilian Amazon has slowed by more than 75 percent since 2004." and approximately 59,000 square kilometres of deforestation in the forest has been prevented over the years. . This method has been quite effective also due to the reason that fines were implemented if illegal deforestation occurs, access to business markets will be severed and equipments will be confiscated. Not only that, they also have a lot of equipment to work with, giving them an advantage, compared to the illegal loggers.
This method also "reduced carbon admissions from deforestation by 56 percent."

The only challenge that this solution faces is the fact that although they may manage to catch the illegal loggers red-handed, the trees can't be saved, and more often than not, they are too late, and the culprit had escaped. Although the rangers have high-tech equipment, the loggers do too, and technology nowadays are advanced enough to clear a whole patch of greenery with just one sweep of an iron chain. As said in the video, "all to often, they (the rangers) are still too late.". Better technology needs to be discovered and quicker methods of tracking needs to be implemented still, to ensure its best effect.

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Under this strategy, laws are set to protect an area in the rainforest from unfavourable activities such as cattle ranching, logging, farming, and building infrastructure. For example,  over half of the Brazilian Amazon is now designation as national parks or indigenous lands, effectively protecting an area larger than Greenland from intensive logging and agriculture. This strategy is effective in managing deforestation as farmers are scared to do illegal logging as they can be tracked down easily and fines can be issued to them.  In the Amazon, officers responsible for monitoring the protected areas may give in to corruption and allow loggers and miners to illegally enter protected areas.

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Satellite monitoring closely monitors activities that are being carried out in the Amazon Forest and should they be related to deforestation, Rangers can quickly go down to the site to prevent deforestation from happening. This method however can only be put into use when deforestation actually happens and the criminals might be able to get away before the rangers have arrived to catch them. Still, satellite monitoring has been very effective as "Satellite monitoring in Brazil is estimated to have prevented deforestation of 59,000 square kilometers of rainforest from 2007 to 2011."
Brandon Tay

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Under this strategy law are set to areas of the forest from prohibited activities such logging and deforestation.

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Protected areas
Half of the Brazilian Amazon is  designation as national parks or indigenous lands, effectively protecting an  from intensive logging and agriculture. The recognition of indigenous land rights ensures the cooperation of locals and serves to preserve their way of life as well as the forest. One of the few problems is that some may fall into corruption and allow loggers and miners to illegally enter protected areas.They are also not fenced and are still vulnerable to human impact. The push for more protected areas began in 2003, pioneered by a new Brazilian administration that was determined to curb deforestation and illegal logging.  n 2003, President Lula and Environmental Minister Marina Silva began to enforce the forest code with greater force. This enforcement was coupled with the soy moratorium, pushed in 2006 by Greenpeace to boycott soy derived from recently deforested land. These forces, combined with measures to restrict credit for landowners practicing illegal conversion, a large expansion in protected areas and designated indigenous lands, and greater capacity for forest monitoring and remote sensing, led to a significant reduction in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon beginning in 2005.

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Satellite monitoring is quite useful. When using satellites, it allows us to compare how much trees we cut down and when the trees are deforested. However, this is not the best as satellites cannot find out who illegally deforested the area. Still, this method is quite brilliant as  Satellite monitoring in Brazil is estimated to have prevented deforestation of 59,000 square kilometres of rainforest from 2007 to 2011. ( taken from https://howtoconserve.org/2015/09/04/saving-the-amazon/)

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Scale poses a huge hurdle for any government agency seeking to enforce wildlife law over a large area. The Amazon rainforest covers a whopping 5.5 million square kilometers, and even with satellites flying overhead, someone has to be on the ground to enforce forestry laws. The Brazilian government got tough on rainforest crime with a series of high profile fines for violators by focusing their efforts on patrolling roads leading into the rainforest. Such focus by law enforcement increased the efficiency of patrols over such a large area.

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IMPROVED ENFORCEMENT

The Amazon rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers, and even with satellites flying overhead, someone has to be on the ground to enforce forestry laws as scale is a challenge for any government agency seeking to enforce wildlife law over a large area. The Brazilian government has power over rainforest crime with a series of high profile fines for violators by focusing their efforts to patrol roads that lead into the rainforest. Such focus by law enforcement is successful in increasing the efficiency of patrols over such a large area.

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Protected Areas

Under this strategy, land is protected from intensive logging and agriculture. Currently, over half of the Brazilian Amazon is now designation as national parks or indigenous lands, effectively protecting an area larger than Greenland. However, land is still required to build things.

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It is a good strategy to implement laws to stop deforestation. Under this strategy, laws are set up to stop deforestation by protecting lands in the Amazon rainforest. The Central Amazon Conservation Complex is the largest protected area in the Amazon Basin. It covers up to 60,000 square kilometres. After laws were implemented to protect the areas, the rate of deforestation dropped greatly. However, some challenges faced include having illegal logging. Illegal loggers refuse to adhere to the laws and illegally cut or burn the trees in the rainforest.

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Under this strategy, laws are set to protect an area in the rainforest from unfavorable activities such as cattle ranching, logging, farming, and building infrastructure. For example, over half of the Brazilian Amazon is now designation as national parks or indigenous lands, effectively protecting an area larger than Greenland from intensive logging and agriculture. This strategy is effective in managing deforestation as farmers are scared to do illegal logging as they can be tracked down easily and fines can be issued to them.  In the Amazon, officers responsible for monitoring the protected areas may give in to corruption and allow loggers and miners to illegally enter protected areas.

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1 Over half of the Brazilian Amazon is now designation as national parks or indigenous lands, effectively protecting an area larger than Greenland from intensive logging and agriculture. The push for more protected areas began in 2003, pioneered by a new Brazilian administration that was determined to curb deforestation and illegal logging.
The recognition of indigenous land rights ensures the cooperation of locals and serves to preserve their way of life as well as the forest. So, by protecting forested ares, it would help to improve the situation of now and would even put a stop to illegal activities to be carried out .

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It refers to the setting of law to protect forested area to unfavourable activities . Unfavourable activities endanger the biodiversity and natural resources found in the protected area.Indigenous people and traditional communities are also preserved in the protected area.Unsustainable logging and agriculture activities such as cattle ranching are banned in the protected area too.For example,over half the Brazilian Amazon is now design as national park or indigenous land effectively protected the area from intensive logging and agriculture activities.

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Satellites have been installed (as said in the video) for protectors to track down activities in the area.
This strategy has been successful as over the years, the rate of deforestation has decreased.
However, installing satellites are expensive, so it might be a problem financially.

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People stop or decrease the rate of aggressive or unsustainable farming and logging . The government should also take more efficient way to try to prevent pollution of soil on which forests grow and also try to control the expanding city development caused by population explosion and the resulting urban sprawl.

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the government should encourage more tree planting campaigns and also take more actions to pant more trees

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Joanne Teo (10)         Public education is a critical part of saving the world’s rainforests. People must see the beauty and understand the importance of these forests so they will want to protect them. Environmental education should be provided to people so that they can understand the importance of rainforests.People need to understand their role in the loss of rainforests. For example, buying certain products like mahogany contributes to the cutting down of rainforests in other countries. If we make an effort to learn about the environment, we can understand what we’re losing as rainforest disappears. We can also make decisions to buy products and support companies and organizations that help the rainforest.In rainforest countries, local people sometimes do not know why forests are important. Through educational programs these people can learn that forests provide key services (like clean water) and are home to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.

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Joanne Teo (10)         Public education is a critical part of saving the world’s rainforests. People must see the beauty and understand the importance of these forests so they will want to protect them. Environmental education should be provided to people so that they can understand the importance of rainforests.People need to understand their role in the loss of rainforests. For example, buying certain products like mahogany contributes to the cutting down of rainforests in other countries. If we make an effort to learn about the environment, we can understand what we’re losing as rainforest disappears. We can also make decisions to buy products and support companies and organizations that help the rainforest.In rainforest countries, local people sometimes do not know why forests are important. Through educational programs these people can learn that forests provide key services (like clean water) and are home to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.

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Nicole Tan (15) Reforestation can be used to rectify or improve the quality of human life by reducing polluting and dust in the air. It can also rebuild some of our natural habitats and ecosystems which we have destroyed. It can also slow down global warming as trees can take in and use the carbon dioxide in the air which would have contributed to the ozone layer and instead give out oxygen that we can use. It can also be used for harvesting of resources, more particularly timber. Most furniture and other items are made from timber so it would be very useful to reforest more areas which could provide us with so many resources.

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Nicole Tan (15) Reforestation can be used to rectify or improve the quality of human life by reducing polluting and dust in the air. It can also rebuild some of our natural habitats and ecosystems which we have destroyed. It can also slow down global warming as trees can take in and use the carbon dioxide in the air which would have contributed to the ozone layer and instead give out oxygen that we can use. It can also be used for harvesting of resources, more particularly timber. Most furniture and other items are made from timber so it would be very useful to reforest more areas which could provide us with so many resources.

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Schools could hold talks to highlight the serious problem and also encourage students to do their part in helping to save the environment, this way we would be more aware of our surroundings, at the same time, the students would be able to spread the message and alert everyone to do their part. In this way we would be able to help decrease the rate of deforestation as a whole.

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Reforestation are carried out to improve the condition of the forests.Since 1991,the National Parks Board has been carrying out reforestation projects.Many students,volunteers,organisations companies joined efforts and 15 hectares at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and Central Catchment Nature Reserve have been planted with 17000 saplings of 150 native species.However, reforestation projects might be expensive,time_-consuming and depends the availability of native plants for reforestation.

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The Brazilian government protects an area of 60000km square, also known as the Central Amazon Conservation Complex. This protected area aims to protect and preserve biodiversity and is also used for education and research purposes. This allows scientists ample amount of time to study and research on the place. This also provides an opportunity to educate the public. However, there are also challenges faced during the process. For example, there might be insufficient manpower to protect this place, leading to an easy break in. Furthermore, officers guarding this place might be bribed with money to enter the place by illegal loggers,resulting in the area not being safe anymore.

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One of the major reasons on why deforestation occurs so quickly is due to the fact that the government does not put up a strong message. Thus, i feel that the government should try to send out a stronger message regarding deforestation and should set a punishment as well as fines for illegal deforestions.

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We can educate people on the importance of the rainforest and raise campaigns against deforestation to raise awareness. At the same time , promoting eco-tourism to enhance awareness to tourists and re-invest money earned into conservation efforts. Education is a critical part of saving the worlds rainforests. People must see the beauty and understand the importance of these forests so they still want to protect them. Environmental education should occur everywhere.Tools like Facebook , Instagram and twitter can help people organise campaigns. Finally, education is important for improving people’s quality of life. One of the most effective ways to reduce the deforestation rate is through education, especially education of teenagers and kids.

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We should not only educate the older people like teenagers and adults on the importance of conserving forests,but also inform the younger kids about it.Through their Kindergarten teachers or lessons,i feel that public education to the younger children this ways are very effective.the reason why i think it is important to educate them on this so early is that when they grow up,that generation will be able to stop it completely.But of course we should still use effort to educate the rest whether through social media or compulsory talks in school or in public.This is to ensure that they can also be good role models for the younger ones too!!

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Zheng weixuan(23)106: Protection of forested areas is the setting of laws to protect an area from unfavourable activities. Over half of the Amazon forests is now effectively protected from an area larger than Greenland from intensive logging and agriculture. This mean unsustainable logging and agricultural practices are banned in these areas through laws or other measures. Even the indigenous community living in these areas are also preserved. In this way,it will prevent unfavourable activities such as endanger the biodiversity in the areas from happening, thus the three impacts, environmental impact, economic impact and social impact decrease, resulting in managing deforestation in the Amazon. Challenges in implementing this strategy in the Amazon are protected areas are not fenced and are still vulnerable to human impact. There are also not enough forest rangers to patrol the huge areas of the Amazon rainforest. For example, The Central Amazon conversation complex is one of the four places largest protected area in the Amazon basin, some of these areas conserve biodiversity through working with indigenous communities, some are protected for research and education while others are totally protected.

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Joanne Teo (10)         Public education is a critical part of saving the world’s rainforests. People must see the beauty and understand the importance of these forests so they will want to protect them. Environmental education should be provided to people so that they can understand the importance of rainforests.People need to understand their role in the loss of rainforests. For example, buying certain products like mahogany contributes to the cutting down of rainforests in other countries. If we make an effort to learn about the environment, we can understand what we’re losing as rainforest disappears. We can also make decisions to buy products and support companies and organizations that help the rainforest.In rainforest countries, local people sometimes do not know why forests are important. Through educational programs these people can learn that forests provide key services (like clean water) and are home to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.

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Joanne Teo (10)         Public education is a critical part of saving the world’s rainforests. People must see the beauty and understand the importance of these forests so they will want to protect them. Environmental education should be provided to people so that they can understand the importance of rainforests.People need to understand their role in the loss of rainforests. For example, buying certain products like mahogany contributes to the cutting down of rainforests in other countries. If we make an effort to learn about the environment, we can understand what we’re losing as rainforest disappears. We can also make decisions to buy products and support companies and organizations that help the rainforest.In rainforest countries, local people sometimes do not know why forests are important. Through educational programs these people can learn that forests provide key services (like clean water) and are home to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.

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The government sets aside some land, and make sure that that area is protected and no one can cut the trees there.
It ensures that there is still part of the  forested areas present to make sure that there is an amount of trees always there.
The protected areas cannot be seen on the real place. Therefore, some places at the border may be cut as the protected areas can only be seen on the map.

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Controlled logging is controlling the amount of logging a person can do. This strategy has been successful in managing deforestation in the Amazon as it decreases the rates of deforestation for the pass few years in the Amazon. However, this
strategy still causes people to continue deforestation. Even though it can control the amount of logging you can do, it will not control the amount of people doing 'controlled logging' in the forest. If that is the case, then it will not help successfully manage deforestation in the Amazon.

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CONTROLLED LOGGING
The Environment  Ministry Rangers move rapidly to area where trees are being cut or burn down by farmers. They then confiscate farmers' equipment when they burn or cut trees down, levy fines and cut access to bank loans and business markets.
This strategy has helped to reduce trees cut down and carbon dioxide emission from deforestation.  According to the video, emission of carbon dioxide has been reduced by 56%, thanks to this strategy.

The problem is that the teams who are on the mission arrive too late and was unable to stop the deforestation. One example from the video shows that the Rangers were unable to arrive to the location before the trees were being removed by a tractor and when they arrived the culprits were gone. The another problem is that the price of soy is rising so farmers will continue to removed more trees

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Over half of the Brazilian Amazon is now designation as national parks or indigenous lands, effectively protecting an area larger than Greenland from intensive logging and agriculture. The push for more protected areas began in 2003, pioneered by a new Brazilian administration that was determined to curb deforestation and illegal logging. The recognition of indigenous land rights ensures the cooperation of locals and serves to preserve their way of life as well as the forest. Also people from brazil has people patrol in the sky as well as on land, this way they will be able to know if there are any illegal deforestation and can help chase off those illegal loggers which will help in protecting forested areas.

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Under this strategy, there will be replanting of areas of forest which have previously been damaged or destroyed. This strategy successfully manages deforestation as the replantation of trees in the Amazon will replace the trees that have been damaged or destroyed by deforestation. Reforestation can help to fight against global climate change as trees play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. More tress means lesser amount of greenhouse gasesentering the atmosphere—and decreased speed and severity of global warming. However, the downside to reforestation is that the trees need time to grow and the fastest a tree can reach maturity is ten years. Thus, this could prove a problem in the Amazon, where trees are being deforested at an unimaginable rate.

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There might be areas protected by laws but without monitoring the areas may cause some illegal deforestation. Those protected areas will not be considered protected anymore. Preventing protected areas to be destroyed is done by the Brazilian government and it has been estimated that satellite monitoring have prevented deforestation of 59,000 square kilometers of forested land. (i found this from the website given and from the category 'satellite monitoring) This method is very effective as they can catch them at the spot, red-handed. In the video, it showed that loggers also have their own set of newest technology and they can clear a large patch of land quickly using iron chain and two vehicles pulling it.

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We can educate people about the importance of trees and forests. Once they are gone, they will never come back as rainforests takes a long time to form. All of us can make an effort in educating the public and ourselves about deforestation. There is definitely at least some piece of paper or something made from timber in every dustbins and trashcans all over the world. Imagine how much trees was cut down to make those things. There is many ways how we can save at least some trees and do our part for this world. First, we can reuse pieces of paper, we need not throw them out, they can be used in every possible way. They can be used to clean dirt stains on tables. Secondly, we should stop using wooden chopsticks given to us whenever we buy packed food such as noodles. From this I can conclude that everyone have a part in protecting earth. It is not just those illegal loggers doing the bad things.