Amazon Conservation Team: The Amazon Rainforest

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The Amazon rainforest has a huge role not only in the forest itself but in our future and with the way we humans live. Daily, the Amazon provides the world with things such as medicines, fruits and nuts, spices, and of course some of the air that we breathe. The Amazon rainforest itself absorbs over two and a half billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. It also releases over two billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. With the deforestation of the Amazon increasing with time, less trees are being used to control the intake and outtake of the carbon dioxide. Other than releasing the carbon dioxide the rainforest also is responsible for twenty percent of earth’s oxygen. The Amazon additionally generates the hydrological cycle, which …show more content…

Although there is other rainforests that are in need for helping, the Amazon is looked at more due to its increasing rates of deforestation. The biggest organization that helps with this is The Amazon Conservation Team. The organization began back in 1996 and the founder was Dr. Mark Plotkin and Liliana Madrigal. Plotkin was an ethnobotanist, Madrigal was a conservationist, and both wanted to begin to conserve lands around the world, especially the Amazon. The Amazon Conservation Team has done many projects that involve with planting and conserving trees around the rainforest. The team has planted over two hundred and fifty thousand trees since the beginning of the organization. Another organization that has helped quite a bit with conservation of the Amazon as well as others, is the Rainforest Foundation. The Rainforest Foundation was created in the year 1989 by Jean-Pierre, Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. This foundation has funded projects that have protected more than twenty-one million acres in the

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