Courtesy of PBS |
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| The Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest: | |
| The rainforests of the world are being destroyed at an amazing rate. In the early 1990s rainforests were being destroyed at approximently 70 acres a minute or 35 million acres a year. That is about as large as the state of Wisconsin. Some plant and animal species are becoming extinct or endangered because of the deforistation. | |
| Efforts to Conserve The Amazon Rainforest: | |
| One of the major ways of protecting the rainforest is to make some of the rainforest national parks and preserves. This means it's illegal to kill the animals living within these preserves. Some large companies have started a campaign hoping that every country will preserve 10% of their forests. Some countries only log trees that will not affect the ecosystem as much as some others. | |
| Links to Organizations: | |
| Tropical Conservation Foundation and the Belize Agroforestry Research Center | |
