Name: Lee Zin Jie Class:2 Jaya(2 Maju) Subject: Helping to Save the Rainforest

Save the Rainforest. Dont bungle the jungle. Weve all heard these sayings time and time again, but when we are at the store, about to purchase a nice entertainment center for our TVs and stereos, How can we be sure that our money is supporting our social and political concerns? Our efforts to save the rainforest arent as clear as they may seem. It is difficult to tell where wood comes from and where it is produced. There isnt a way for the individual to identify a good wood from the bad, well-managed forests from ill managed, both domestically and tropically, said Scott Landis, President of the Woodworkers Alliance for Rainforest Products (WARP), a non-profit organization of woodworkers, instrument makers and architects and designers. Landis suggests that as consumers, we should educate ourselves about the sources of products they sell. By looking around for signs and labels to see if they indicate responsible use of the rainforest and its products. Governments spend a lot of money trying to help the ecology if rainforests, but apparently there has been little luck. According to Chris Park in Tropical Rainforests, There have been numerous calls for major investment of time, money and trained personnel into research of rainforest ecosystems. While scientific research in recent decades has revealed a great deal about this unique and highly complicated ecosystem, important questions are still unanswered. There are

still many gaps we need to know how to better understand the structure and ecology of rainforests. About 93 percent of the land are owned by only seven percent of the landowners. Economics is at the heart of whats driving a lot of rainforest destruction, said Landis of WARP. People need to eat, provide food for their families, and that will take precedence over the survival of a timber species or survival of a timber or a forest. There is no doubt about the urgency and importance of the tropical deforestation crisis amongst foresters and conservationists, but debate about whats causing the problem and what the answers are, also exist. Foresters like to argue that logging itself does not destroy the forest, if done properly, but its the results that ruin the forest. Behind the colonization come the problems of poverty, overpopulation and unequal land distribution. For those of us who are not politicians, we can avoid deforestation by avoiding the purchases of products that are linked with tropical rainforest hardwoods. This helps contribution to the destruction of the few forests that are left and the indigenous people living there.

The causes of aftermath are the disappearance if vital needs, such as food and medicine, global warming, and disappearance of life as we know it. Global warming is one of the most important, in my opinion. Global warming was brought to the worlds attention in 1988. Obviously, foresters alone cannot achieve this. Both public and private sectors, from government ministries to local community groups, are needed in order to quickly expand tropical rainforest conservation and development programs. There are a few easy ways to help save the rainforests. Recycling, using plastic instead of wooden materials and using recycled products are some of the most easy ways to help save the forests right at home. Try recycling paper and aluminum products to reduce the cutting down of trees. Also, paper and plastic can also be recycled, so be sure to use recycled paper and plastic instead of wooden products. If everyone helps out a little bit, our forests would not be vanishing as fast.