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1 Deforestation By Gerald Weimer, Michael Olvera, Je Yeun Min, and Latavia Allen

2 Deforestation: clear (an area) of forests or trees.

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6 UGANDA -3.9% of total forest ANNUALY with only 12.4% of the Rainforest LEFT

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8 Brazil

9 Borneo Timeline

10 The World

11 CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION Agriculture and Cattle-Raising Dams Buildings/ Mega projects Mining Oil and Gas

12 CATTLE

13 Why Cattle? Food companies such as McDonald's uses forests to find more space to raise cattle and crops. The more land they clear, the more profit.

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15 Costa Rica, which is one of the countries with the worse deforestation rate in the world, is home to millions of cattle

16 Cattle pasture land in Honduras takes up over 40 percent of the country's fertile land.

17 Dams

18 Dams are built to change water flows. Forests are cleared to make man made irrigation leading towards more inhabited regions.

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20 Building and Construction

21 Forest are not only being cut for building material, but for extra space as well.

22 Oil Mining

23 In places such as Canada and Middle America (Costa Rico, Venezuela, Panama) forest are cleared in spots that are suspected of holding oil underground.

24 EFFECTS

25 Temperature Increase

26 Animal Extinction

27 Other Effects Drain on national resources Landslides and floods Unworkable Soil

28 What Can We Do?

29 Tips -Reforestation -Rotate Crops -Support Farmers From States -Recycle Paper

30 Organizations such as these focus on preserving forest habitats. Community Forestry International The Nature Conservancy World Wide Fund for Nature Conservation International African Conservation Foundation Greenpeace

31 MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!

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