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Tell the ways by which we can conserve rainforests?

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Tell the ways by which we can conserve rainforests?

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  1. People Need to Breed less.

    population is the Core and Mother of all problems.


  2. we can learn to better manage our forests.... prevent illegal logging and control the amount of logging in our forests.

  3. fencing and sealing the forest from civilian approch only conserve forest

  4. Avoid using old growth or illegally-harvested wood:

    When shopping for wood products at your local lumber-supply store or at national chains, specifically request sustainably or legally harvested wood. Try to use reclaimed or recycled lumber whenever possible.

    Recycle and use fewer paper products:

    Check your neighborhood, office or school for recycling programs. Print out fewer documents, use both sides of a piece of paper and reuse paper whenever possible. Each ton of recycled paper can save about 17 trees and 7,000 gallons of water.

    Use energy more efficiently:

    Turn your heat two degrees cooler in the winter and your air conditioning two degrees warmer in the summer. The small change in temperature can create a world of energy savings, which can decrease the need for oil exploration projects that can lead to deforestation. Whenever possible, carpool or use public transportation.

    Support local meat and produce farmers:

    Outside the U.S., rainforests are often clear-cut so that farmers can grow produce or raise beef. Go to your neighborhood farmers market for locally-grown, fresh fruits, vegetables and meats. Talk to your butcher at your grocery store and request that they stock meats raised in your area.

    Support causes that actively work to conserve rainforests:

    The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt-an-Acre program has helped protect more than 600,000 acres of critical rainforest habitat around the globe. This year’s featured Adopt-an-Acre project is working to preserve 50,000 acres of endangered forest in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan Province, on the Island of Borneo. Here, in the land called the “River of Diamonds” where orangutans, sun bears and clouded leopards reside, unsustainable logging and mining threaten to destroy one of Earth’s most important centers of natural diversity.

  5. strict conservation and avoidance of human interference is the best way. But in many rainforests, there are indigenous populations (tribals) who have been living in symbiosis with the ecosystem for millennia. They cause no irreparable change in any of the components of the system, and become integrated with it. They may predate on a deer, but may themselves be eaten up by a tiger. They may take the twig of a fallen tree to make a shelter with, but help in the dispersal of the seeds of that tree. They may clear a small patch and cultivate it with a preferred species, but that takes up so infinitesimal a part of the forest resources that nature patches it up without any scar.

    so, it is a question of numbers and technology. Let the rainforests alone; but if you have to get into them, become a part of the ecosystem, and do not intrude any technology that  irreversibly alters any of its components.

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