Why are the animals endangered?
Humans have destroyed over half the worlds forests and the remaining forest habitats are shrinking scaringly fast. Without the Amazon rainforest we not only lose trees and precious plants but millions of living spieces of animals, who no longer have a habitat to live in.There are many aspects of deforestation: deforestation is the demolition of forest or trees, but our campaign only focuses on one of these aspects. We focus on small scale aggriculture: you may be schocked to hear small scale aggriculture accounts for 40% of South America`s deforestation and is actually the biggest cause of deforestation.
Small scale agriculture
Small scale agriculture
This is called subsistence farming (when someone farms just enough food to feed themself and their family). Farmers burn or cut down small areas of forest, plant and harvest then move on to a new area of land. They do this because once they`ve cut down the trees there is nothing else to protect the soil from erosion.
This is called leeching (where all the nutreints are washed out of the soil) this means crops can no longer grow there and the rainforests can`t restore itself because there are no nutrients left in the soil for new plants to grow from. This may seem quite harmless in small doses, but it's slowly destroying the rainforest.
How does this affect the animals?
It destroys their habitat and the bio-diversity of the forest. Since the rainforest can`t grow back there is less and less space for them to live and less food for them to eat. This drives certain spieces to extinction because of the lack of rescources.
Please note that this website was done
for a geography project , all the facts and information on the website are true
but we are not working in other countries, working with the Brazillian Goverment
or playing an active role in protecting the rainforest, only raising awareness.
We believe the pages under "animals endangered" are factually correct but pages
under "How do we sort it out?" aren`t factually correct. All the links on the
website are to actual online proper websites and aren`t linked to this website
or this project. WWF is a website where you actually can play an active role in
protecting the rainforest.
for a geography project , all the facts and information on the website are true
but we are not working in other countries, working with the Brazillian Goverment
or playing an active role in protecting the rainforest, only raising awareness.
We believe the pages under "animals endangered" are factually correct but pages
under "How do we sort it out?" aren`t factually correct. All the links on the
website are to actual online proper websites and aren`t linked to this website
or this project. WWF is a website where you actually can play an active role in
protecting the rainforest.