The island also includes some tropical dry forest and savanna areas. A tropical rain forest has year-round warm temperatures and almost daily rainfall. The soil is ancient and lacks in minerals. There are no dominating species in this biome. About 90% of the animals living in the rain forest are adapted to living in the canopy (middle story) and there is an abundant variety of reptile, insect and amphibians living under then canopy.
The documentary also shows how animals are given antibiotics to make them grow much more rapidly. In addition, Food Inc. presents that factory farming does damage to the environment due to the loss of biodiversity. The article “Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming” from the Washington Post emphasizes how factories have taken a hidden toll on humans’ health. It mentions how factory farming fails to provide humane treatment of animals. The article also talks about how that modern agriculture like factory farming is responsible for about the twenty percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas production.
The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on Earth. New diseases introduced by Europeans, to which the indigenous peoples of the Americas had no immunity, depopulated many cultures. Data for the pre-Columbian population in the Americas is uncertain, but estimates of its disease-induced population losses between 1500 and 1650 range between 50 and 90 percent. [1] On the other hand, the contact between the two areas circulated a wide variety of new crops and livestock which supported increases in population in both hemispheres. Explorers returned to Europe with maize, potatoes, and tomatoes, which became very important crops in Eurasia by the 18th century.
The main factor behind this tragedy is that they are native only to the tropical rainforests in the islands of Borneo (shared between the countries of Indonesia and Malaysia) and Sumatra (in Indonesia), these rainforests are rapidly disappearing due to logging and the expansion of huge palm-oil plantations that are replacing the rainforests at a very fast pace. This means the orang-utans are losing their home and their food source. The Sumatran orang-utans are critically endangered as there are only as few as 6,000 left in the wild. Over the past 100 years the population has decreased by 91% and continues to become fragmented and isolated and many of the populations are no longer viable. The Bornean orang-utan species has about 40,000 animals left in the wild, a much healthier number then the Sumatran orang-utan but still not ideal.
Infection of virus 4. Neonicotinoids C. Thesis: However, to closely look at human cause, Neonicotinoid insecticides are considered by many scientists as the primary factor responsible for the ongoing collapse of honeybee colonies. III. One of the main cause of CCD—Neonicotinoids A. Its application in agriculture B.
By definition, factory farming involves animals stored in cramped, hot, disease ridden cages, crates or other confined spaces to produce eggs or other foods for humans to consume. The definition of this debate is whether factory farming should be put to an end. I am supporting the fact that it should indeed be put to an end. Why? #1 point, cruelty Well, first of all, About 500 million land animals now in the Thailand are raised for dairy, meat and eggs each year and they all got killed in more than 400 slaughterhouses from the factory farming that are exist around the country.
The Florida State officials have been removing some snakes; they removed more than 1,300 Burmese pythons from the Everglades between the years of 200 and 2010 (Weeks para. 4). These snakes threaten the endangered wild life and human residents. In 2005 a python swallowed a 6-foot
For thousounds of years, many Indians have lived in the Amazon rainforest. These natives relied on their natural surroundings for their livelihood as well as for their food.They grew maize and wild rice,ate fruits, vegetables, nuts, and their oils, and caught fish from the rivers. Slowly,however,these people have disappeared.They have been wiped out by constant fighting among the various tribes and by diseases brought in by foreign traders and settlers. Now the population of the Amazonian Indians has shrunk to arround one million people. The Amazon, the main river that flows through the Amazon rainforest,is a place of wonder because it is inhabited by exotic animals that live in and around it.
The outlook is bleak, but all hope is not lost due to different initiatives by various African governments to solve this devastating problem. Deforestation due to agricultural development is both a blessing and a curse. More farms equal more food, but fewer forests equal less rain which can bring food production to an abrupt halt. Deforestation combined with poor cropping methods result in the reduction of cloud cover and much larger evaporation rates. (“Overview of Drought”) Malawi, for example, was once a heavily forested country, but due to the population doubling and 80% of the population practicing subsistence farming, forests only cover about 27% of the land.
This provided an ideal climate for the airborne fungus that was referred to as "wet rot"(Gavin, 2000, Chapter 2) to continue to flourish and destroy the potato crops for six year. The potato famine itself was responsible for the deaths of over one million Irish men, women, and children and the emigration of another one million (Gavin, 2000) dispossessed to the shores of the United States of America. The Irish population at the time of the famine consumed upwards of seven million tons of potatoes yearly (Gavin, 2000). It is clear to see why the potato blight that destroyed this hardy and nutritious vegetable was responsible for so much death, suffering and the migration of those one million Irish catholic souls to the shores of America. Unable to sustain their nutritional needs or to meet the financial obligations their landlords imposed there were few options for the indigenous population but to starve or leave Ireland.