Deforestation Powerpoint[1]

Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1: Is the World in Grave Danger?
2. Slide 2: • Increase in Global warming and Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions • Tropical rainforests are disappearing causing alterations to the climate • Each day at least 80,000 acres (32,300) hectares of these forests disappear from the earth • Ozone depletion • Forest fires (release about 370 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year) • Deforestation rates in the Amazon Rainforests have not slowed
3. Slide 3: Economic Implications • Industries are over-using and over-cutting trees for prosperity and mostly for profit • Rapid globalization around the world is a major concern • Increase in Supply & Demand • Since the population around the world is constantly growing on a daily basis, many corporations are clearing forests to build infrastructures • Poverty stricken countries give their natural resources away to earn foreign currency to pay off loans
4. Slide 4: • Biofuels are produced from renewable resources such as: plants and organic waste and can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels • Palm oil plantations are posed as a major threat • Destroying habitats of orangutans and other wildlife • Orangutans spend about 80-90% of their time in the trees • Demand for biofuels is on the rise
5. Slide 5: Deforestation in Brazil Brazil looses the largest area of forest cover annually
6. Slide 6: Increase in Tropical Deforestation Around the World
7. Slide 7: Controversial Topic: Construction of the Red Hill Creek Expressway Project- Hamilton, Ontario
8. Slide 8: Major Deforestation in Brazil
9. Slide 9: ~~~ If everybody does not stay ignorant and take little steps or solutions to prevent deforestation from occurring in the future, then overall we all will have a better world to live in. ~~~ • Reduce wasteful land use practices • Improve already developed lands • Businesses and corporations have to be more aware of the effects that deforestation causes and they have to take little initiatives to prevent it from increasing • Governments have to make citizens aware of the issue • Each person can plant trees once in a while to maintain the ecosystem • Groups can be formed to decrease deforestation • The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Global Forest Watch Canada (GFWC) are groups that have already been formed to prevent deforestation
10. Slide 10: References • “A World Imperiled: Forces behind forest loss.” Mongabay. Online. Available. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0801.htm • Astor, Michael. “Global Warming could transform Amazon into savanna in 100 years: researchers.” Canadian Press. 29 Dec. 2006. pg. A12 • Brummit, Chris. “Biofuel boom has hidden costs; producing palm oil for biofuels is boosting Indonesia’s economy, but the resulting deforestation contributes to global warming and is destroying the habitat of orangutans and other wildlife.” Record, The (Kitchener/Cambridge/Waterloo, ON). 19 Sept. 2007. pg. A5 • Butler, Rhett. “Regional Deforestation”. Mongabay. 1994-2007. Online. Available. http://photos.mongabay.com/07/regional_defor.jpg • Forge, Frederic. “Biofuels- An Energy, Environmental or Agricultural Policy?”. Library of Parliament- Parliamentary Information and Research Service. Online. Available. http://www.parl.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/prb0637-e.htm • Friends of Red Hill Valley. Online. Available. http://www.hwcn.org/~forhv/expressway/expresswaytitlepage.htm • Hagan, Kevin. “Deforestation: An International Crisis.” Online. Available. http://www.american.edu/TED/projects/tedcross/xdefor21.htm • “Share of tropical deforestation”. Mongabay. 2000-2005. Online. Available. http://photos.mongabay.com/07/trop_defor_pie-max.jpg • Suzuki, David. “Forest protection vital to stem Global Warming.” Western Star, The (Corner Book,NL). 19 May. 2007. pg 12.