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Annotated Bibliography
Rebecca Lindsey, Robert Simmon. “Tropical Deforestation”. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/.
Eos Project Science office, 30 march 2007. Web. November 16th 2012.
This article provides great in-depth numbers and points of view on how much deforestation has
happened over the last decade. It is believed that if it continues at its current rate the rainforest could
be completely gone within a 40 year time frame. There are multiple factors that go into rainforest
deforestation but the main ones are economic factors and not only does it affect the rainforest but ways
of life.
Elizabeth Smith. “Deforestation & the effects it has on a global scale”.
www.nationalgeographic.com/deforestation. Demand Media, 12 February 2012. Web.
November 10th 2012.
This article gives good insights on how deforestation affects everybody on a global scale. Even though
we might not live near the rainforest deforestation can still affect our lives. Deforestation can change
the climate of a certain area as trees and plants create certain chemicals and keep it a certain
temperature at certain places but also how plants and animals come into play along with deforestation.
Helen Thompson and Nature magazine. “Most of Amazon rainforest’s species extinctions are yet to
come”. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=most-amazon-rainforest-species-extinctionsyet-to-come. Scientific American. 13th July 2012. Scientific American. November 16th 2012.
This article gives insights on how animal extinction is coming into play with deforestation. This article
explains how deforestation effects animals and their habitats but also how extinction of rainforest
animals are near and coming quickly and if nothing is done we cannot save certain species from
becoming extinct from this world.
Rhett Butler. “Medicinal plants”. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/1007.htm. Mongbay. July 22 2012.
Web. November 10th 2012.
This article provides insights on how the rainforest is full of plants and those plants are used by
indigenous people for medicine and also a way of life and how also the modern world uses the found
plants to create life saving medicines or important medicine. Plants play a much bigger part then people
realize in our everyday lives and along with deforestation these plants are destroyed and could soon be
extinct along with animals and certain medicines could not be found or created.
Rhett Butler. “Deforestation and Extinction”. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/1007.htm. Mongbay.
July 22nd 2012. Web. November 12th 2012.
This article provides information on how deforestation is at an alarming rate along with extinction of not
only animals but plants as well. The rainforest is beautiful along with its animals and plants but the
deforestation rate is soon to make the rainforest and everything held within it extinct.
Rhett butler. “Consequences of deforestation”. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/1007.htm.
July 22nd 2012. Web. November 12th 2012.
This article provides insights of the consequences that come along with deforestation not only for
animals and plants but along with the people who live in the forest and how it would affect our world
(climate, medicines, animals, and indigenous people) on a global scale more than most people think or
realize it would affect them .