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Save the Rainforests
19-04-2008
This is frightening!!!!! Please help and spread the word if you can, before its too late.
Did you know that the world’s rainforests are still being destroyed with staggering swiftness to provide cheap farming and timber in response to international demand. The current rate of clearing is equivalent to losing an average of 20 football pitches every minute, more than 71 000 football fields of forest every day In the last 10 years an area approximately the size of Spain has disappeared!!! We cannot allow this to continue. Did you also know that emissions from deforestation in developing countries represent about 20% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, or about 6 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Forests provide habitats to about two-thirds of all species on earth as well as home to several million indigenous people. The FAO (UN Food & Agriculture Organisation) estimates that deforestation of tropical rainforests accounts for the loss of as many as 100 species a day. The Year 7 students at Cambridge House Community College, Valencia, have decided that something must be done and have started a petition to raise awareness and which will then be sent to the governments of the world. Please log onto this site to sign our petition, Stop the destruction of the rainforests*-*Online Petition it will only take a few moments and no personal information will be used. |
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