Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The extinction

List of Amazon rainforest animals that suffered extinction and some who still suffer from the extinction of their species:

Amphibians
Flamenguinho
Perereca

Mammals
Wildcat
Red wolf
Ocelot
Puma
Gray bat
Jaguar
Manatee
Pampas deer
Manatee-of-Amazon (mammal)

Birds
Cardinal
Small macaw
Large macaw
Piranga macaw
Spix's Macaw
Red macaw
Seven-coloured tanager
Yellow bellied macaw
Channel-billed Toucan
Black stork
Harpy Eagle
Black-tailed Gull

Terrestrial Invertebrates
Spider-whip
Gongolo
Snail
Beetle
Beetle-of-horn
Bee
Dragonfly
Worm-white

Fish
Pirarucu

Reptiles
Camaleãozinho
Blind worm

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

How to help the Amazon rainforest?

There are some of the items for help the Amazon Rainforest:
Reduce your paper and wood consumption.
Reduce your oil consumption.
Reduce your beef consumption.
Hold businesses accountable.
Invest in rainforest communities.
Support the grassroots.

Know more about the Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon is a vast and majestic rainforest teeming with an estimated quarter of all known land species. The jaguar, the pink river dolphin, the sloth, the world's largest flower, a monkey the size of a toothbrush and a spider the size of a baseball are just a few of the species that we know about - there are many more yet to be discovered.It is also home to over 20 million people including hundreds of indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the ‘outside world’. And finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon, helping to stabilise the planet's climate.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Why help?

The Amazon is a vast region that spans across eight rapidly developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France.
The landscape contains:
·         One in ten known species on Earth
·         1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet's remaining tropical forests
·         4,100 miles of winding rivers
·         2.6 million square miles in the Amazon basin, about 40 percent of South America

There is a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet. The rain forests, which contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, help stabilize local and global climate. Deforestation may release significant amounts of this carbon, which could have catastrophic consequences around the world.

1 The Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Impact

Monday, October 15, 2012

The institutes

Many institutes were created to help the Amazon rainforest. The mission of them is protect the rainforest, talk to the world that for have a good life you have to know live in harmony with the nature in which he lives,  protect the animals in extinction, train human means for the development of the Amazon.
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The institutes and the ideas are:

AMPA - rescue and rehabilitation of manatees

INPA - Increasing responsibility in the task of producing knowledge, establishing a commitment to sustainable development

Instituto Mamirauá - They want to protect the flooded forests  and protect the mantees and the porpoises.

Instituto Chico Mendes - Contribute to a more just society and healthy revealing the concepts of natures. Acting together with several programs for people considering the human being as great environmental intervenor.

SOS Mata Atlântica - The responsibility is the preservation of society, with actions taken on their daily.

Greenpeace (in Amazon) - Greenpeace is campaigning for an end to deforestation in the Amazon by 2015 and globally by 2020.

WWF in the Amazon - WWF-Brazil is a Brazilian NGO, participant and an international network committed to nature conservation within the Brazilian social and economic context.

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