TROPICAL RAINFORESTS Flashcards
Why do we need to manage tropical rainforests?
-The Amazon tropical rainforest is a valuable provider of resources and opportunities and these are divided into two groups:
● Those resources provided by the rainforest in its natural state
● Those resources provided by the land once it has been cleared of its forest
cover. The large commercial value of these goods and services, particularly the crops and livestock is often the driving force behind deforestation
● The resources and opportunities o
Advantage of development for tropical rainforests?
25% of the active of the active ingredients in today’s cancer fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest
Disadvantage for development for tropical rainforests?
it is the rainforest’s air purification service that could be said to be the most valuable service to both people and the environment, not just within the rainforest but globally
