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Cia World Factbook Shifting Cultivation
1,455 wordsPhysical Geography Madagascar is located 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa, just south of the equator. This island nation contains no 'Principal' lakes, oceans, seas, rivers or islands; however it does have one 'Principal' mountain- Maromokotro- that is located on the island's central plateau. The island is over 1000 miles (1580 km) long and 350 miles (570 km) wide. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world - after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. It is about the size of Spai...
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Asia Pacific Region South East Asia
1,677 wordsThe disappearance Deforestation 2 Deforestation The disappearance of trees, unquestioningly accepted as an indication of environmental degradation, evoked reactions ranging from disheartening feelings of powerlessness to various forms of cynicism (Kuchli, 1997 Page 8). Not only do forests support plants and animals; but they also have local and even global impact on ecosystem sustainability. It will be the object of this essay to analyze, based on a global scale, the patterns of deforestation. A...
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Plants And Animals Amazon Rainforest
2,314 wordsTo: Michael Meacher Copies: The Deputy Prime Minister Director of EPS All Heads of Division RIO CONFERENCE ON DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST Dear Mr. Meacher, I have prepared the following report for you to read before you attend the Rio Conference on Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. I feel that the key issues for you to consider are global extent of deforestation and the condition of the Amazon rainforest e. g. effects of deforestation. I cannot express how urgent my recommendati...
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Plants And Animals Shifting Cultivation
919 wordsTropical rainforests are bursting with life. Not only do millions of species of plants and animals live in rainforests, but many people also call the rainforest their home. In fact, Indigenous, or native, people have lived in rainforests for thousands of years. In North and South America they were mistakenly named Indians by Christopher Columbus, who thought that he had landed in Indonesia, then called the East Indies. Although many Indigenous people live much like we do, some still live as thei...
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Cattle Ranching Shifting Cultivation
2,234 wordsname = Shiv Sudan email = publish = yes subject = Science title = Rainforest Destruction papers = Introduction With the increase of rainforest destruction that is taking place, it could take ten years for the rainforests to be destroyed for good. If we dont restrain or take action towards the destruction there is no telling what will happen to the world. Most scientists have predicted that at the rate that we are going at there will be no rainforests left by the year 2050. Long ago, rainforest w...
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