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DEFORESTATION FACTS

• One and a half acres of forest is getting cut every second,
• 20% of the oxygen is produced by the Amazon forest,
• Half of the world's tropical forest are now cleared out,
• The forest store 283 million tons of carbon.

CAUSE OF DEFORESTATION

• People cut down tress for wood,products, and fuel
• People/farmers slash-and-burn the trees down
• Farmers are to blame for deforestation in the Amazon

HOW DOES IT AFFECT US?

• Tress produce oxygen and people need to breathe.
• I need oxygen to breathe.
• If there are no trees it can damage the quality of the lands.

SOLUTIONS!

• The government/laws should stop cutting down trees and instead plant them.
• The people can cut less trees.
• Corporations/markets can help save the tress.
• People can go paperless for a couple days/week.

SAVE the trees instead of losing a lot of oxygen/trees.

ROSOURCES

• Conserve-energy-future.com
• Nationalgraphic.com
• Phys.org
• Howstuffwork.com
• Greenpeace.org
• mnn.com

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