Rainforests

The world's vast rainforests are under an ever increasing threat that shows no sign of receding at any point in the future. They are a huge natural resource that the worlds population seeks to exploit for their benefit. Timber is the driving force behind many national economies and its availability is very important. The process of slash and burn is very popular in the Amazon rainforest in South America. The migrant tribes are constantly on the move and looking for more land to cultivate. They will clear a large area of land in the forest, felling all of the trees and clearing vegetation. This is then burnt on a large scale in an effort to ...  Read the complete review

I have been fortunate to have the priviledge to live in Cleveland Ohio which has a wonderful Zoo. Half of that zoo is a facility called the rainforest. It is a large 3 story Rainforest that provides educational information as well as exhibits of the various life forms that inhabit the inperiled Rain Forest Regions. They have one of those 'so 1985' digital readouts that shows the depletion of the Rainforests in Red LED, it shows the destruction of the land, I watched it one day for 3 hours and noticed that it kept the same rate of decline, which cost it credibility with me, surely the guys would take breaks or have a siesta and I explained this to the gentile old ...  Read the complete review

Geography was always my favourite subject at secondary school. It taught me the way natural processes operate, such as glaciation, the water cycle, and rainforests. Every subject however seemed to have a common theme, which was that humans have interrupted with them, and, unsurprisingly, had led to detrimental consequences. It is rainforests that is perhaps the best example of where human interference has had the worst effect on nature. The destruction of rainforests is, in my opinion, indefensible, and for the large part, entirely unnecessary. Tropical rainforests are the biological honey pots of the world. They are found entirely within the inter-tropical ...  Read the complete review

(Before I start i'd just like to point out that i'm not sure what "rating" to give this 'product'. Mainly because although in the link above it just says "Rainforests" however my opinion is about the destruction of the rainforests.... anyhow, i've rated it as a 5* 'product' seen as the rainforests are worthy of 5 stars!) We all know what's going to happen to the world if we don't stop cutting down the rainforests..... most of us suddenly have a moment when we think "we really must start doing something". Then, that fleeting moment passes because the dog's just thrown up, or EastEnders is ...  Read the complete review

Tropical rainforests are a vitally important ecosystem, an ecosystem that supports all life on Earth, yet has come under attack from human impact, particularly in the last 30 years. An ecosystem is defined as ‘a natural unit in which the life cycles of plants, animals and other organisms are linked to each other and to the non-living constituents of the environment to form a natural system’. All ecosystems exist in a natural state of dynamic equilibrium, but are extremely vulnerable to disruption, whether they be arctic tundra or equatorial rainforest. One thing that makes the rainforests so special though is their richness of life. The ...  Read the complete review