Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Current Human impacts

Humans play a major role in protecting and maintaining the Tropical Rainforest, however there are those out there who are not so environmental friendly.
They chopped down the trees that block the sunlight, therefore increasing temperature they take minerals and flowers,and make beverages and medicine they kill animals in order to get food and when they do this,they throw the food chain off (4).
of (4).Government officials and many other interest groups have made a decision to try and reverse these practices. They issued many protective policies over the Australian Tropical Rainforest. The Illegal Logging Prohibition act was passed by the senate. This Act prohibits the import of illegal logged timber. It is important to the Australians to preserve their rainforest they therefore took a further step to eliminate logging all together . The International Tropical Agreement. This is the current guiding document that manages the rainforest as well as implement strategies for sustainable development (6) . Because of the peoples persistence to save the rainforest, the  Australian rainforest has been at the top of the list for the most well preserved tropical rainforest left in the world. If there are no plants, there will be no animals either.
Other Human threats include: Mining, which destroys the rainforest to get minerals from under it; Logging, Tourism, there are hundreds of thousands of people who visit the rainforest each year, which means cars and busses in the rainforest disturbing animals and destroying habitats; and also development, which covers everything from division of land to building roads and fences which disturb and uproot rainforest habitats (6). ONCE RUINED, THERE IS NO WAY TO REBUILD A RAINFOREST.


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