deforestation lesson for middle school

BELL WORK

1.Open up your binder to the Journal tab.

2.Write a journal answering this question:

What happens to our world when we cut down trees and do not plant more?

DeforestationA world-wide epidemic

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Tropical Rainforests

Awe-inspiring Beautiful Indescribable

The Importance of Rainforests

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Reasons For Logging

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Bush Meat Trade

The logging is opening up roads for the hunters.

Inhabitants of the Rainforest

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Indigenous Species to the Rainforest

Impacts on Inhabitants

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“Humanity is cutting down its forests,

apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.”-Isaac Asimov (1920-1992),

Impacts on the Soil and Climate

Nutrients are LOST.

The Sun was

BLOCKED.

Deforestation Rates

Global Warming

Global Warming cannot be fixed without Deforestation being fixed first…they go hand in hand.

Practice of selective logging • Choose and

identify mature trees before cutting down the trees

Setting aside land as Indian reserves • Set aside land

reserves/forests that only the Amazonian Indians can clear to build houses and grow food. They can’t sell these rights to anyone.

Setting aside protected areas • Protected area

by the government

• Left undisturbed to allow natural vegetation to grow

Stopping Deforestation

Deforestation leads to Desertification

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DEFORESTATION DESERTIFICATION