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    What's Wrong With Amazon ?: By: Nurshahindah Nik Sabrina Nateesha Mia Hannan

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    The Amazon is the largest rainforest and river basin on Earth, home to 10% of known species including 3,000 types of fish. Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees, usually to make way for agriculture, grazing, fuel, or construction. Since 1978, over 750,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed, mainly by human settlement and the development of cattle ranching. The Amazon spans 670 million hectares across many countries and stores huge amounts of carbon, but deforestation could result in the loss of over a quarter of the Amazon biome by 2030 if trends continue.

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    The Amazon is the largest rainforest and river basin on Earth, home to 10% of known species including 3,000 types of fish. Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees, usually to make way for agriculture, grazing, fuel, or construction. Since 1978, over 750,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed, mainly by human settlement and the development of cattle ranching. The Amazon spans 670 million hectares across many countries and stores huge amounts of carbon, but deforestation could result in the loss of over a quarter of the Amazon biome by 2030 if trends continue.

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    The Amazon is the largest rainforest and river basin on Earth, home to 10% of known species including 3,000 types of fish. Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees, usually to make way for agriculture, grazing, fuel, or construction. Since 1978, over 750,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed, mainly by human settlement and the development of cattle ranching. The Amazon spans 670 million hectares across many countries and stores huge amounts of carbon, but deforestation could result in the loss of over a quarter of the Amazon biome by 2030 if trends continue.

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    What's Wrong With Amazon ?: By: Nurshahindah Nik Sabrina Nateesha Mia Hannan

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    The Amazon is the largest rainforest and river basin on Earth, home to 10% of known species including 3,000 types of fish. Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees, usually to make way for agriculture, grazing, fuel, or construction. Since 1978, over 750,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed, mainly by human settlement and the development of cattle ranching. The Amazon spans 670 million hectares across many countries and stores huge amounts of carbon, but deforestation could result in the loss of over a quarter of the Amazon biome by 2030 if trends continue.

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    What’s Wrong

    With Amazon ?
    By:
    Nurshahindah
    Nik Sabrina Nateesha
    Mia Hannan
    THE AMAZON
    The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest and the largest river basin on the planet.

    More species are found here than anywhere else.

    The region is believed to be home to 10% – 1 in 10 – known species on Earth. Of plant species
    found in this region, 75% are unique to the Amazon, and there are 3,000 species of fish, the largest
    number of freshwater fish species in the world.
    What is deforestation?
    Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest. This
    can include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing, or using the timber for fuel, construction or
    manufacturing.

    Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated
    deforestation occurs in tropical rainforests.
    Deforestation in the Amazon
    The main sources of deforestation in the Amazon are human settlement and development of the land.

    Since 1978 over 750,000 square kilometers (289,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil,
    Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana.

    For most of human history, deforestation in the Amazon was primarily the product of subsistence farmers who cut down
    trees to produce crops for their families and local consumption.

    But in the later part of the 20th century, that began to change, with an increasing proportion of deforestation driven by
    industrial activities and large-scale agriculture.

    By the 2000s more than three-quarters of forest clearing in the Amazon was for cattle-ranching.
    Amazon Forests Facts
    ● The Amazon rainforest spans 670 million hectares
    ●
    Between 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon is stored in the Amazon forests
    ●
    34 million people live in the Amazon and depend on its resources
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    Forest losses in the Amazon biome averaged 1.4 million hectares per year between 2001
    and 2012, resulting in a total loss of 17.7 million hectares, mostly in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia
    ●
    If current trends continue, deforestation could double to 48 million hectares between 2010
    and 2030, meaning that more than a quarter of the Amazon biome would be without trees

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