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DEFORESTAT ION IN THE CONGO
RAINFOREST
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AFRICA'S RAINFORESTS• Most Rainforests in Africa are found in the Congo Basin. • Deforestation began in 1990 and it is still a problem today.• Many include Gorillas, chimpanzees, and elephants.• Native population known as pygmies live there.
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Congo rainforest- biggest
Guinea- west coast
Nigerian Gabon
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DIFFERENT CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION• To make more land for housing and urbanization.• Make more homes.• Logging. • Subsistence agriculture. • Mining.• Bush meat trade.• Industrial logging is the most extensive form of land use in Central Africa.
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LOGGING
• Used for basic health care. • Very important. • Illegal logging is very common.• Big cause of deforestation.
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SUBSISTENCE FARMING
• Main cause of deforestation. • Many poor families use this.• Use trees and burn them.
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MINING
• Most dangerous activity • Africa has many rich minerals • Many short term health issues• Very little saftey
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EFFECTS ON THE REGION/ENVIRONMENTALLY • Constant Climate changes like Greenhouse emissions • The bush meat industry has decreased because of the lack rainforest
habitat• Extinction of many animals • Destroying homes for a lot of wildlife
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Cut down trees everywhere
2000 sq miles are lost every year.
27 billion tones of carbon stocks a year
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EFFECTS… ECONOMICALLY
• Increase in supply and demand • Plants are dying • New roads are being set up• As population increases, resources decrease
1000
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EFFECTS… POLITCALLY
• The government isn’t doing much to help stop deforestation • They're many rules about the rainforest and the trees inside of it• But because the government dose not care many people do illegal activites• Can result in being imprisoned or fined
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STEPS TO STOP DEFORESTATION (REDD)• REDD is a group that performs activites to try and stop deforestation• Projects include…• Quantfiy greenhouse emmions in the forests• New methods to measure forest degradtion • Small groups to help stop others from cutting down trees