Brazil-Jb-Fall10

Brazil



Primary Documents- [] - this is a series of data analasyis of deforestation in the area. The data shows where in the region where there is the most deforestation and it shows the rapid increase over the past years.

[] - The document states and shows statistical information about the Amazon Basin and how deforestation in that area has affected it.

Artifact One **DEFORESTATION IN BRAZIL**: 60-70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon The chart/graph above shows the Sq. kilometers in the Brazilian Amazon over the past 22 years. Compared to other regions the Brazilian rainforest has mass amounts of deforestation. In the past decade for the most part the amount is rapidly increasing, but in the last few years it has been on the decline.
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Artifact two ||  ||   || The red dots indicate forest fires that were started from deforestation in Brazil. There are a high concentration of forest fires towards the center of the forests due to high defoestation in that area.


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Artifact three in the Brazilian Amazon (km²) ||~ Annual forest loss (km²) ||~ Percent of 1970 cover remaining ||~ Total forest loss since 1970 (km²) || The Chart shows the annual loss of forest cover over the last 20 years or so. the perecntage drops every year by about half of a percent and the forest cover which was 96.5% in 1977 and is now only about 82%. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/deforestation_calculations.html
 * ~ Period ||~ Estimated remaining forest cover
 * Pre–1970 || 4,100,000 || — || — || — ||
 * 1977 || 3,955,870 || 21,130 || 96.5% || 144,130 ||
 * 1978–1987 || 3,744,570 || 21,130 || 91.3% || 355,430 ||
 * 1988 || 3,723,520 || 21,050 || 90.8% || 376,480 ||
 * 1989 || 3,705,750 || 17,770 || 90.4% || 394,250 ||
 * 1990 || 3,692,020 || 13,730 || 90.0% || 407,980 ||
 * 1991 || 3,680,990 || 11,030 || 89.8% || 419,010 ||
 * 1992 || 3,667,204 || 13,786 || 89.4% || 432,796 ||
 * 1993 || 3,652,308 || 14,896 || 89.1% || 447,692 ||
 * 1994 || 3,637,412 || 14,896 || 88.7% || 462,588 ||
 * 1995 || 3,608,353 || 29,059 || 88.0% || 491,647 ||
 * 1996 || 3,590,192 || 18,161 || 87.6% || 509,808 ||
 * 1997 || 3,576,965 || 13,227 || 87.2% || 523,035 ||
 * 1998 || 3,559,582 || 17,383 || 86.8% || 540,418 ||
 * 1999 || 3,542,323 || 17,259 || 86.4% || 557,677 ||
 * 2000 || 3,524,097 || 18,226 || 86.0% || 575,903 ||
 * 2001 || 3,505,932 || 18,165 || 85.5% || 594,068 ||
 * 2002 || 3,484,538 || 21,394 || 85.0% || 615,462 ||
 * 2003 || 3,459,291 || 25,247 || 84.4% || 640,709 ||
 * 2004 || 3,431,868 || 27,423 || 83.7% || 668,132 ||
 * 2005 || 3,413,022 || 18,846 || 83.2% || 686,978 ||
 * 2006 || 3,398,913 || 14,109 || 82.9% || 701,087 ||
 * 2007 || 3,387,381 || 11,532 || 82.6% || 712,619 ||
 * 2008 || 3,375,413 || 11,968 || 82.3% || 724,587 ||