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Part 6 Disappearing green canopy―Who should pay for the massive deforestation in rainforest regions?
6 Disappearing green
canopy―Who should
pay for the massive
deforestation in
rainforest regions?
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Part 6 Disappearing green canopy―Who should pay for the massive deforestation in rainforest regions?
6.1 What is happening
to tropical rainforests?
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What are your
impressions about a
tropical rainforest?
Luxuriant growth
of plants?
Rainforest in Temburong, Brunei (Credit: Ng Kim Hung)
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Rich diversity of
plant and animal
species?
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Or the deforested
scenes of
rainforests?
Destroyed Amazon rainforest
No matter what impressions you have,
we need to know where we can find
tropical rainforests first.
(Credit: Reuters/OTHK)
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Where are tropical rainforests?
Where can we find
tropical rainforests?
Tropical rainforests can be found between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Where can we find the
largest area of tropical
rainforests in the world?
The largest area of tropical rainforests in the world is in the Amazon Basin in South America.
Congo Basin South-east Asia
Amazon
Basin
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What has happened to tropical rainforests?
The change in the Brazilian Amazon
rainforest cover (1990-2006)
The rainforests in the Brazilian Amazon has been losing at a rapid rate.
What has happened
to the tropical
rainforests in the
Brazilian Amazon?
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How can we identify the phenomenon from
satellite images?
Satellite image of Brazilian Amazon in 1975
1975 1986
Satellite image of Brazilian Amazon in 1986
Deforestation
carried out along
roads, developing
‘fish-skeleton’
patterns
Undisturbed
forest
1992
Satellite image of Brazilian Amazon in 1992
(Credit: NASA)
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How can we identify the phenomenon from
satellite images?
1992
(Credit: NASA)
What changes
had been
taken place in
the rainforest
cover?
The rainforest cover in the Brazilian Amazon had been
shrinking between 1975 and 1992.
Roads were built into the rainforest, where forests were
cleared along them.
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How about the situation in other rainforests
in other parts of the world?
Changes in tropical rainforest cover throughout the world
Source: Washington DC: Global Forest Watch
Congo Basin:
relatively slower rate,
but still significant
South-east Asia:
most seriously
deforested
Amazon Basin:
deforested in an
alarming rate
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Why do people
remove the
rainforests?
How should
rainforest resources
be managed and
conserved?
What can we do to
help protect and
sustain tropical
rainforests?
To be continued…
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