Protecting The Amazon Rainforest

Author : Tracy Vonder Brink
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644933055
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protecting the Amazon Rainforest written by Tracy Vonder Brink and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the richness of the Amazon rainforest, how humans have damaged it, and efforts being taken to protect it. Clear text, vibrant photos, and helpful infographics make this book an accessible and engaging read.

Author : Tracy Vonder Brink
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644933055
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protecting the Amazon Rainforest written by Tracy Vonder Brink and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the richness of the Amazon rainforest, how humans have damaged it, and efforts being taken to protect it. Clear text, vibrant photos, and helpful infographics make this book an accessible and engaging read.

Author : Mark J. Plotkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190668318
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazon written by Mark J. Plotkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second--in two hours, this would be enough to supply all of New York City's 7.5 million residents with water for a year. Its flora and fauna are abundant. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined. It is home to the world's largest anteater, armadillo, freshwater turtle, and spider, as well as the largest rodent (which weighs over 200 lbs.), catfish (250 lbs.), and alligator (more than half a ton). The rainforest, which contains approximately 390 billion trees, plays a vital role in stabilizing the global climate by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide--or releasing it into the atmosphere if the trees are destroyed. Severe droughts in both Brazil and Southeast Asia have been linked to Amazonian deforestation, as have changing rainfall patterns in the U.S., Europe, and China. The Amazon also serves as home to millions of people. Approximately seventy tribes of isolated and uncontacted people are concentrated in the western Amazon, completely dependent on the land and river. These isolated groups have been described as the most marginalized peoples in the western hemisphere, with no voice in the decisions made about their futures and the fate of their forests. In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, ecologist and conservation expert, Mark J. Plotkin, who has spent 40 years studying Amazonia, its peoples, flora, and fauna. The Amazon offers an engaging overview of this irreplaceable ecosystem and the challenges it faces.

Author : Mark J. Plotkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019066830X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazon written by Mark J. Plotkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second--in two hours, this would be enough to supply all of New York City's 7.5 million residents with water for a year. Its flora and fauna are abundant. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined. It is home to the world's largest anteater, armadillo, freshwater turtle, and spider, as well as the largest rodent (which weighs over 200 lbs.), catfish (250 lbs.), and alligator (more than half a ton). The rainforest, which contains approximately 390 billion trees, plays a vital role in stabilizing the global climate by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide--or releasing it into the atmosphere if the trees are destroyed. Severe droughts in both Brazil and Southeast Asia have been linked to Amazonian deforestation, as have changing rainfall patterns in the U.S., Europe, and China. The Amazon also serves as home to millions of people. Approximately seventy tribes of isolated and uncontacted people are concentrated in the western Amazon, completely dependent on the land and river. These isolated groups have been described as the most marginalized peoples in the western hemisphere, with no voice in the decisions made about their futures and the fate of their forests. In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, ecologist and conservation expert, Mark J. Plotkin, who has spent 40 years studying Amazonia, its peoples, flora, and fauna. The Amazon offers an engaging overview of this irreplaceable ecosystem and the challenges it faces.

Author : Mark Ungar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319565524
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon written by Mark Ungar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement through formation of constitutional protections, military operations, stringent laws, police forces, judicial procedures and societal efforts that together break through barriers that have long restrained decisive action. Even such advances, though, struggle to curb devastation by oil extraction, mining, logging, dams, pollution, and other forms of ecocide. In every country, environmental protection is crippled by politics, bureaucracy, unclear laws, untrained officials, small budgets, regional rivalries, inter-ministerial competition, collusion with criminals, and the global demand for oils and minerals. Countries are better at creating environmental agencies, that is, than making sure that they work. This book explains why, with country studies written by those on the front lines—from national enforcement directors to biologists and activists.

Author : Alfredo Mensi Jr.
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3748726120
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How we can save the Amazon rainforest written by Alfredo Mensi Jr. and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to propose a project that will save and protect the Amazon rainforest. This goal would be obtained through the protection of the edges of the rainforest. The project focuses on the problem of the civil exploitation and tries to find a possible solution to it. The Amazon rainforest is one of the most important things we have in this world to fight climate change: that's why we need to protect it. The only way to do it is through the best means that our time can give us: technology and economy.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 154195629X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazon Rainforest : One of Earth's Largest Natural Resources | Children's Books about Forests Grade 4 | Children's Environment & Ecology Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information in this book will make you understand the need to protect Earth’s natural systems - the Amazon Rainforest included. There will be a discussion on the functions, structures and characteristics of living things and how they interact with one another and their environment, too. Learn more about the Earth to appreciate it better. Begin reading today.

Author : Maria Antonia Tigre
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004313508
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Cooperation in Amazonia written by Maria Antonia Tigre and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Regional Cooperation in Amazonia: A Comparative Environmental Law Analysis, Maria Antonia Tigre investigates efforts in regional cooperation for the protection of the Amazonian ecosystem by the eight countries in which the world’s largest rainforest lies.

Author : Catherine Barr
Publisher : Let's Save
ISBN 13 : 9781406395969
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Save the Amazon: Why We Must Protect Our Planet written by Catherine Barr and published by Let's Save. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why we must protect the Amazon from climate change. Bursting with all kinds of life, the Amazon is one of the most incredible places on Earth. This richly illustrated picture book brings to life this extraordinary region for young children, exploring its tropical rainforest and scenic landscapes. It showcases the lush wildlife, diverse communities and life-saving medicines that can all be found there and therefore why it is so important that we act to protect this special part of the planet from the impact of climate change.

Author : Peter Bunyard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colombian Amazon written by Peter Bunyard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: