3A-Ranching

= Cattle Ranching =



﻿Cattle Ranching plays a major roll in rainforest deforestation

= = =** __How Cattle Ranching causes Deforestation:__ ** = First logging companies remove trees and sell the land to cattle ranchers. Ranchers leave a few trees for shade and bring in the cows. But when the land is overgrazed the ranchers move to another area where they buy land from families at discounted prices. The process repeats and more land is destroyed. Especially now it is important to become aware of the damage being done because rainforests are shrinking year after year.

**__ What we can do!! __ **
One way we can prevent our industry from causing deforestation is by donating to the Rainforest Conservation Fund. It is an organization to help protect the rainforest from destruction. Donating will help them realise that people care about the rainforests and want to save them. For more information on the RCF and contact information, visit their website!! http://www.rainforestconservation.org/ (link: [|Rainforest Conservation Fund])

Another was we can prevent indestries from causing deforestaion is by cutting down on fast food consumption. Fast food restaurants are destroying rainforests at a growing rate to use the land to raise their cattle.

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Logging roads creates the same problem as public highways by removing trees, causing erosion, and fragmenting habitat, while cattle ranching resembles mining because it requires large tracts of cleared forest. ======

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Ranchers and large farms have learned to reduce soil degradation by clearing the forest in a method called slash and burn. Slash and burn is a process of cutting down large tracts of forest, letting the downed trees dry, then burning them in place to release nutrients into the soil. Soils in tropical forests tend to be nutrient-poor due to the dense vegetation they support. The methodfortify the soil for grazing or agriculture, but eventually the added nutrients also diminish and the ranches and farms move to another part of the forest to begin the process again. This constant using up of land and moving on to healthier sites is called shifting cultivation. ======

McDonalds and Burger King use poisins to kill the rainforests which also hurts surrounding plants and animals to create grazing pastures for cattle. Not only that but they are forcing tribes to move off the land so they can use it for cattle ranching!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #08ff08; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Cedros Island Mule Deer**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Status:__ ** Critically Endangered **
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Tana River Mangabey's lives in trees near the Tana River and they are losing their homes to cattle ranching and soon there will be no Tana River Mangabey's found in the wild. ====

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