Coming To A Close

Find the missing information.

Rainforests once covered _____% of the Earth's land surface; now they cover a mere ____% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than _____ years.

Brazil has lost over _________square miles of Amazon rainforest since 19____.

___________________________ of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.

Nearly ___________of the world's species of plants, animals, and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the ____________ due to Rainforest deforestation.

Experts estimate that we are losing ________ plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to ____________ species a year.

Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its ___________ by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.

Most of the nutrients in the rainforest are found in the _________________ and once these are cleared the farmers burn the trunks to release the nutrients.  The rain washes the nutrients away and the soil is _________________________, so the farmers seek new land.

Most of the clearing of the rainforest is done for ___________________ to grow beef for the world market.

The peasant farmers clear the land for ___________________ to satisfy the basic human need for food.

The value of a rainforest acre if it is used for cattle operations only generates ___________.

The value of a rainforest acre if it is clear-cut and used for timber operations is __________.

The value of a rainforest acre, if it is used for sustainable harvesting of nuts, fruits, oil producing plants, and medicinal plants is __________.

The ______________ of the rainforest include corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; ___________ like; black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, turmeric, coffee and vanilla and ________ include Brazil nuts and cashews.

There were an estimated ___________ Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than __________.

In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than ______ indigenous tribes since the __________.
Rainforests are being cleared by world giants like __________ Corporation, Georgia Pacific, ___________ and Unocal for ____________.

When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of ____________ knowledge about ___________ plants.

Recycling _____________ can help reduce the impact caused by mining the mineral Colton, which is found in Congo rainforests and there is an estimated ____________ unwanted cell phones lying around, enough to reach from London to New York and back again or __________   tons of landfill waste.