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Conservation of the Temperate Rainforest ﻿ ﻿By: Jack K. and Lorik C.

What is the human impact on our biome?

Negative: One and a half acres of land in the rainforest are lost every second due to humans. Most of which is due to logging. Logging is a huge threat to Temperate Rainforests everywhere. Not only does logging affect the animals living in trees, it also ruins the soil. When trees that hold the soil together are cut down, the soil can easily be eroded. The soil can then be carried down to fast moving rivers and streams. The soil can slow up the streams and threaten fish species. Lastly, when trees are cut down, it pollutes the air. Trees act like natural filters to thing in the air from cities and factories. The pollutants in the air usually end up on the trees leaves and then, eventually, it will end up back in the soil. But when the trees are cut down for logging reasons, the pollution will stay in the air. Positive: Experts say that too many people are harvesting the Temperate Rainforest's many nuts, fruits, oil- producing plants, and medical plants. So areas of the forests are being closed off to people so the area may grow and not be cut down or harvested. Also, people have been creating and finding new sources of income for the nuts, fruits, oil- producing plants, and medical plants. With the new sources for these things the forests don't have to be cut down. Also, when people cut down trees for lumber. It is required that they plant another tree in one of the many reserved areas in the forests. Lastly, whenever an area of the forests are cut down for lumber, the land is then sometimes used for raising cattle. So just that one spot of land was used for lumber and for cattle. So even after the trees had been cut down, the land was still being used usefully.

What are problems in our biome that need to be addressed by humans?

Problem 1: ﻿ One of the big problems in the forests is machines for logging or businesses give off too much smoke or smog. With all of the smog the air is getting polluted and when the air is polluted the trees die. Whenever a trees dies it affects food chain. It affects it because most animals need trees to survive and without them they dont have a home. A way we could solve this problem would be to build factories further away from the forests. If the factories were further away, the smog wouldn't get to the forests. Another solution is to plant trees in a reserved area and only cut those trees. Problem 2: Another major problem in the Temperate Rainforest is poaching. Poaching is when someone hunts something illegally for their own purposes. Lots of animals go extinct or endangered because of poaching. A way we can solve this problem is to cut off all hunting in the forest. There are four species of animals in the endangered list due to poaching illegaly and two species are already extinct and just to make it even worse animals get driven out of their homes. On the other hand people can ban hunting in the forest and turn the forest into a natural reserve.

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