Save the Caribbean Rainforrests

 
Global Rates of Rainforrest Destruction
2.47 acres (1 hectare) per second
150 acres (60 hectares) per minute
214,000 acres (86,000 hectares) per day:
78 million acres (31 million hectares) per year

Please do something good in your life!

 
The Caribbean rainforrests are the home of many endangered species. Due to the population growth, these rainforrests shrink every year at an alarming rate.

Tropical rain forests are rapidly disappearing from our planet. Deforestaion occurs in these tropical forested lands, the lands are not irreversible and soils in these places are very poor which mean with in the few years after the destruction that all of the nutrients in the soils will disolve. 

Only 1% of tropical plants have been examined for possible medicinal uses, but we get already  between 25 and 40% of all pharmaceutical products from the rain forests.

There are several predicted effects of global warming, which is exacerbated by logging of our rain forests:
Melting ice sheets will raise sea levels and flood communities that are currently above sea level, diseases like malaria will increase worldwide, and extreme weather events like hurricanes and blizzards will increase. 

Causes of Rainforest Destruction
Immediate Causes
 -Logging
- Agriculture-Shifted Cultivators
- Agricultures-Cash Crops & Cattle Ranching
- Fuelwood
- Large Dams
- Mining and Industry
- Colonisation Schemes
- Tourism
Underlying Causes
- Development and Overconsumtion: the Basis Cause
- Colonialism
- Exploitation by Industrialised Countries
- The Debt Burden
- The Role of Poverty and Overpopulation

We from Caribsurf.net like to do our part to save the rainforrests in the Caribbean. The best way is to buy land with remaining rainforrest and make sure, that this rainforrest will not be logged.

All we need is people who understand, how importand it is, to do something now. You can help with money. Sure, you have thousands of things to buy, but do you really have to spend all your money for luxery? Can't you spend once in your life a certain amount for a really good idea? 

You will be the owner of the land that we buy from your money. And in case you get in financial trouble one day, you can sell the land and get your money back (with the condition to conserve the forrest of course).

Let us know that you like to help.
 

Links
http://www.rainforest__australia.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforests/
http://www/newint.org__Rainforest__weather__NIMagazine
http://www.ma-secretariat.org
 

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