rainforest preserve
2011 One World Film Festival
Now in its 13th year, Prague’s One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is more popular than ever. One World is the largest documentary festival of its kind in Europe, and attracted more than 10,000 viewers last year, according to festival programmer Scott Hudson.
What animals are most affected in the destruction of rain forests?
I'm writing an essay on the jungle and I have to put detruction So I would like to preserve and why sufficient attention to this issue
An average of 35 species become extinct every day in the rainforests of the world. The forces of destruction such as logging, ranching and overpopulation have contributed to the loss of millions of hectares of rainforest. Animals and people alike lose their homes when trees are cut. These animals are given without notice to move – no time to pack their bags – and most die when the forest is destroyed. Many large mammals such as leopards and apes need miles and miles of territory to roam and have a hard time to survive in smaller habitats fragmented and are forced to by humans. When rainforests are destroyed, animals living outside the tropics suffer as well. Songbirds hummingbirds, warblers and many other North American birds winter in the woods, returning to the same place year after year. Less return north each spring, as few do in the winter because their habitat has been destroyed. Deforestation is not the only reason for the extinction of species. Thousands of monkeys and other primates are traded illegally on the international market every year, looking for their fur, as pets or for scientific research. Parrots and macaws have become popular pets, buyers paid up to $ 10,000 for a single bird. Even the jaguar, is in danger of extinction. Its fur is very valuable for use coats and shoes. The rivers have become two overexploited and polluted. The gill nets and the fishermen to kill large numbers of fish in at once. They often use only the larger fish and more profitable, the dumping of dead fish and other smaller animals such as dolphins back into the rivers. Contamination of mining has killed fish stocks in the mighty Amazon River. Many indigenous peoples who have depended on these fish for centuries, have become sick fish poisoned. Extinction happens naturally. Species such as dinosaurs and saber tooth tigers have died out of his failure to adapt to the changing environment. But today humans are altering their habitats too quickly for their adaptation. Only in this modern have so many species become extinct in a short period of time. Humans must share the earth with all plants and animals, otherwise our dominance will result in the continued extinction of many species. It would be a sad world Indeed, without the beauty of the toucan or the grace and power of the jaguar.
