Transcript AmazonIndians3

Native Peoples
Elias Osio, Tri Nguyen, Alex
LeMaire
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Our Position
• We are against rainforest destruction
Entitlement
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This land has been handed down unto
us by our forefathers long before the
corporations and government attempted
to corrupt it of its natural resources and
beauty.
 If there is anybody that should have
control over the fate of this land, it is us,
not government plans like Avanca Brasil.
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Natural Beauty
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292 square miles of rainforest was destroyed in August 2008.
That's a 228 percent increase over August 2007.
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Slash and Burn farming has caused extensive environmental
damage. This causes soil to lose its fertility and weeds to invade the
area, which severely harms the natural beauty of the land.
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26,000 sq km, or one fifth of the entire Amazon has already been
cleared. If this alarming rate of deforestation increases, the
rainforest will be no more.
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The rainforest is a lush, species-rich paradise with more than 75,000
types of trees and 150,000 species of higher plants. One in ten
known species in the world live in the Amazon Rainforest. If we
keep allowing people to destroy this wonderful forest, it will never
be as beautiful of a place as it is right now.
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Natural Habitats
 The rainforest is the most species rich
biome. It has 2.5 million insect species,
40,000 plants and 2,000 birds and
mammals. The natives depend on these
animals for food, clothing and other
purposes. With the destruction of the
rainforest we have lost many species
that may never see the Earth again, we
must preserve our environment and the
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life on it.
Natural Habitats
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2,500,000 million insect species
40,000 plant species
3,000 fish species
1,294 bird species
427 mammal species
428 amphibian species
378 reptile species
and many more to be discovered
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