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by Anonymous on September 16th, 2006

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What are organizations that work to stop deforestation?

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  • by Krezzy on September 18th, 2006

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    There is a fair few companies trying to stop deforestation but i doubt they accoumplish much. I think that they are very good people but need more thought into what they do to stop deforestaion. Like do something everyone will remember. Who will remember a protest. There's protests every day!!

    Some Info From National Geographic Channel.
    The statistics paint a grim picture. According to the World Resources Institute, more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests already have been destroyed. Up to 90 percent of West Africa’s coastal rain forests have disappeared since 1900. Brazil and Indonesia, which contain the world’s two largest surviving regions of rain forest, are being stripped at an alarming rate by logging, fires, and land-clearing for agriculture and cattle-grazing.
    Among the obvious consequences of deforestation is the loss of living space. Seventy percent of the Earth’s land animals and plants reside in forests. But the harm doesn’t stop there. Rain forests help generate rainfall in drought-prone countries elsewhere. Studies have shown that destruction of rain forests in such West African countries as Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire may have caused two decades of droughts in the interior of Africa, with attendant hardship and famine.


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