Save the forests Exposition by Ethan Z https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv Come on everybody, save our world together! en-us 2017-09-14 02:11:24 UTC 2017-09-14 03:00:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Many animals live in forests and When you chop down trees, you break their homes. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187404295 2017-09-14 02:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187404295 Almost half of the prescribed drugs that are used in the USA come from rainforest plants. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187404901 2017-09-14 02:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187404901 Children with leukemia are treated with a drug from a rainforest flower. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405388 2017-09-14 02:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405388 Malaria and heart disease are treated with some medicines made from rainforest plants. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405455 2017-09-14 02:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405455 Without the rainforest to soak up rain and release it slowly, floods and droughts become more common. Global warming and climate change are accentuated. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405488 2017-09-14 02:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405488 Rainforests are a place for migratory birds to live during harsh Northern winters. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405747 2017-09-14 02:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405747 Many species of birds, animals, and plants will not be able to find the right conditions they need in order to live, and they will become extinct. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405790 2017-09-14 02:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405790 Costa Rica is a very small country in Central America, with its widest point being only 185 miles across. It is smaller than West Virginia but contains approximately 500,000 species of animals, birds, and plants. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405828 2017-09-14 02:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405828 Rainforests are destroyed because zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405895 2017-09-14 02:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405895 Farmers burn the rainforest to plant crops, and the crops grow well for the first few years, but soon the soil looses its nutrients and is no longer good for crops so the farmers need to cut more rainforest to plant new crops. Burning the forest releases carbon, which causes changes in wind currents and rainfall around the world. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405962 2017-09-14 02:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187405962 Burning the forest adds to the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the lower atmosphere, which may cause global warming. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406087 2017-09-14 02:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406087 Loggers cut down trees to make wood for industry and construction, and the rainforest is destroyed. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406472 2017-09-14 02:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406472 Developers cut down rainforests to build homes and businesses. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406612 2017-09-14 02:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406612 Miners discover gold, iron and oil in rainforests, and destroy the rainforest to make money on selling these products. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406718 2017-09-14 02:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187406718 It is home to literally MILLIONS of different species. 70% of land animals and plants live in rainforests. If rainforests disappear what would happen to them? zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187407104 2017-09-14 02:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187407104 There are potentially millions of animal and plant species that are yet to even be discovered! If deforestation continues at the current rate, not even a quarter of these will be discovered before they are killed off! 137 rainforest species are exterminated completely every single day. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411117 2017-09-14 02:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411117 Over a quarter of the medicines we use today have their origins in the rainforests – and that’s after only about 1% of rainforest plants have been examined for their medicinal properties! Imagine what else could be there? It’s not crazy to think that our best chance of curing the diseases, such as Malaria and HIV, that plague our world, could lie within the rainforest... zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411207 2017-09-14 02:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411207 The rainforest helps to regulate the worlds water cycle. Trees play an important part in the water cycle, grounding the water in their roots and releasing it into the atmosphere. In the Amazon, more than half the water in the ecosystem is held within the plants. Without the plants, the climate may become dryer and growing food could become impossible for many. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411286 2017-09-14 02:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411286 Most of our foods come out of the Amazon like , bananas , pineapples , nuts , coffee beans and many more. If deforestation contiunes at the current rate of 46-58 thousand square miles of forest each year—equivalent to 36 football fields every minute - then we could be in danger of cutting off a significant percentage of our food supply. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411368 2017-09-14 02:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411368 Deforestation drives climate change. Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and holds in heat at night. This disruption leads to more extreme temperatures swings that can be harmful to plants and animals. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411420 2017-09-14 02:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411420 Trees also play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests means larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—and increased speed and severity of global warming. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411478 2017-09-14 02:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411478 The biggest reason to save the rainforest is the effect deforestation has on local economies. Increased flooding, lack of quality water, and inability to produce their own food causes many locals migrate to cities that lack the infrastructure for them. Or sadly, the only way they can make money is to work on plantations, worsening the deforestation problem and at times being subjected to inhumane dangerous working conditions. zhuane1 https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411701 2017-09-14 02:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zhuane1/z0phh3sbzwlv/wish/187411701