Introduction The plight of the rainforests has not been "front page news" for several years now, due possibly to the media's incessant passion to cover events in the war against Iraq and terrorism. But the fact that rainforests are not headlines, as they were a few years ago, does not mea...

The destruction of the rainforests is one of the most crucial environmental issues of our time. It is also one of the most misunderstood and neglected. There has been so much propaganda and publicity attached to this crisis that "Save the Rainforests" is becoming almost as cliche as &q...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon" by Andrew Revkin. Specifically it will contain a summary of the book. "The Burning Season" tells the story of Chico Mendes, the leader of the Brazi...

THE VANISHING RAIN FOREST The purpose of this paper is to discuss the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest. This discussion emphasizes the social and geographic background, the impact of deforestation on the Amazon's people and resources, and the causes as well as some proposed solutio...

The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest. It covers approximately 2 million square miles in the Amazon River Basin of South America (Lyman 1998, 61) About two-thirds of the rainforest lies in Brazil. The forest also covers parts of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, and Venezu...

Eight thousand years ago, when humans didn't have an astounding affect on the world ecosystem, trees covered two fifths of the land. Since that time, the human race has burnt and chopped down half of the original forestland. According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, deforestation is d...

Tropical rainforests cover 5 to 6 percent of the earth's surface and they are disappearing at an alarming rate. Many ecologists, scientists, and even rock stars and countless other people all over the world have formed groups to help ease the destruction of the tropical rainfo...

RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION AND THE IMPACT ON SOCIETY Abstract Nobody knows exactly how much of the world's Rainforest have already been destroyed and continues to be razed each year. Data is often imprecise and subject to differing interpretations. However, it is obvious that the area of tropical Rain...