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Lesson 7 Rainforest Management

The document describes rates of tropical rainforest deforestation, explaining that Brazil has the highest rate at 27% and Indonesia is second at 17%, while also noting that protection efforts in Brazil have reduced deforestation by 80% since 2004. It discusses the Achuar tribe of Ecuador who have preserved their ancestral lands from oil and logging industries through legal battles. Proper management of rainforests can help reduce emissions, exploitation, and pollution while still providing resources for medicine and sustaining biodiversity and indigenous tribes.

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Lesson 7 Rainforest Management

The document describes rates of tropical rainforest deforestation, explaining that Brazil has the highest rate at 27% and Indonesia is second at 17%, while also noting that protection efforts in Brazil have reduced deforestation by 80% since 2004. It discusses the Achuar tribe of Ecuador who have preserved their ancestral lands from oil and logging industries through legal battles. Proper management of rainforests can help reduce emissions, exploitation, and pollution while still providing resources for medicine and sustaining biodiversity and indigenous tribes.

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Lesson 7: Managing tropical rainforests

Starter:
What part of the
world are rainforests
found?

• Learning objective:
To describe the rates of rainforest deforestation
and explain why they need to be protected.
Key terms
• Deforestation- when trees and forested areas
are cut down for a number of reasons.
• Management- a scheme or project that looks
at monitoring and improving something
Why are rainforests so vulnerable?

Every 2 seconds an area of


Once tropical rainforests
the rainforest that is the
cover 15.5millkm2 now its
size of a football pitch is
just 6.2millionkm2
cut down

The fastest rates of The rainforests are an


deforestation are in important ecosystem for
Indonesia and Brazil providing oxygen and medicine
and are homes to a large
number of species.

Rainforests are also home


to vulnerable tribes who
could not exist in our
world
Tropical deforestation 2010-2015

Describe the rates of deforestation


Activity time
• Create a pie chart based on the following information
Country deforestation rates %
Brazil 27
Indonesia 17
Myanmar 4
Zambia 4
Tanzania 4
Nigeria 4
DR Congo 3
Zimbabwe 3
Venezuela 3
Other tropical countries 31
Who is the worst and why?

27
31
Brazil
Indonesia
Myanmar
Zambia
Tanzania
Nigeria
DR Congo
Zimbabwe
Venezuela
3
Other tropical countries
3 17

3
4
4 4
4
What is the issue in Brazil?
The past: Today:
Since 2004 there has been an 80%
Small scale reduction in rainforest clearing.
deforestation from This is because:
farmers was an issue 1. The government cracked down
on illegal deforestation.
however, large
2. Half of the Amazon is now a
companies and cattle protected conservation area.
ranching has cleared 3. Brazil is committed to reducing
the rainforest. carbon emissions
4. Consumers do not want to use
products from cattle ranching.
Why do we need to protect the rainforests?
The Achuar: Ancient People of Ecuador
General info
• The Achuar are a group of indigenous peoples
of the Amazon Basin, currently numbering
around 6,000. Their ancestral lands – nearly 2
million acres in all – straddle the modern
borders of Ecuador and Peru, a remote area
that has allowed them to preserve their way
of life with little outside influence or
colonization.
Oil and the modern world
• Oil concessions in the rainforest were first granted in the early
20th century by the Ecuadorian government, with further access
granted in the 1960s, when exploration and development
increased precipitously. Other industries, such as lumber, rubber,
and industrial agriculture, had a similar history in the region.
• By the 1980s, Achuar elders and shamans were having visions of
a grave and imminent threat to their people and culture. As
industries moved systematically closer and closer to their
ancestral lands.
• The Anchar people fought the government and won to save their
land. Today oil exploration is banned from their sacred land and
the tribe remain untouched or unharmed.
So does management make the rainforest
more valuable?

We can still get Emissions are still


medicine to save lives reduced when we are
ensuring there are
enough trees
Exploitation is reduced

Less pollution from


slash and burn
Tribes remain
untouched Biodiversity can still
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thrive
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Exam practice
The rainforest is more valuable when it remains
intact that when destroyed. Using a case study,
support or challenge this statement.

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