Unknown?

Submitted by tom proctor on 15 October, 2006 - 08:38.
Unknown?

More than half of the worlds 10 million species of plants, animals, and insects live in the tropical rainforest. Currently, 121 prescription drugs come from plant-derived sources. The beauty of the rainforest is impossible to desribe and hard to capture on film. In the last 50 years more than half of the RF has fallen victim to fire and chainsaw. Unbelievably, over 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. SORRY FOR THE RANT; i am in 11 grade right now helping daughter with a paper.

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Unbelievable, yes.

Submitted by catahoula_fan on 15 October, 2006 - 11:47.

What source(s) are telling you this info. Sounds like the numbers are being inflated for shock value. This is not to say that their isn't deforestation going on, just that somebody's tweaking their numbers a bit.

An invaluable book for medicinal herbs is The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs by Leslie Taylor (ISBN 0-7570-0144-0). The amount of info is staggering, and it has been extremely helpful in identifying some of the plants we come across here in Nicaragua.

Sources

Submitted by tom proctor on 15 October, 2006 - 12:02.

www.rain-tree.com/facts I dont make it up I am just helping bring attention to your part of the world that I find interesting and sad. I am sure that you are not using any tropical hardwoods in the construction of your new home, and that none of your furniture is made from teak, mahogany or rosewood. As I was going down the Rio San Juan it was breaking my heart to see the huge logs at the rivers edge and wondering where they came from and who is doing it.

In all honesty

Submitted by toms on 15 October, 2006 - 19:30.

I see many from different parts of the world telling Nicas....

Dont cut your trees, dont kill your turtles.. dont, dont, dont

do this that or the other...

I want to see these so called helpers make movements in a way that teaches and encourages rational programs in the correct way of manageing these RENEWABLE Resources...

this is what they are Renewable.. to me cutting trees and replanting them is nothing more than Farming on a 50 or so year scale...

But Dont, don't, don't just aint gonna get the job done...

Reforrestation projects should be part of the harvesting plan, and one that is adheared to... IMHO

Lyin' Farmer John Wayne

I dont get it

Submitted by tom proctor on 15 October, 2006 - 19:36.

do you like my facts and figures. I am helping my daughter do a paper on rainforest and I did not realize how bad the situation was until I started doing her research.

Come on now

Submitted by toms on 15 October, 2006 - 19:51.

we all know facts and figures can be monipulated to acheave a goal..

I have personaly been deep in the interior of this region and seen the jungle retaking places that had been cut years ago..

I am a proponent of selective harvesting to allow younger trees room to grow... savage wanton destruction, I agree is unacceptable.

and the people have the need to utilize their resources, I just get a little pissed with dogooders... NOT persenting solutions for these poor people's predicament. not including you here, but those in the field.. you and I are just observers.

I know that if effort is made in a good way they can and will respond.

Take the new conversation laws on the targeting of the regions green turtles. size limits, closed seasons, are now a fact of life with the fishermen. Also all of the animal is used even the shell, nothing is throwen away.

Lyin' Farmer John Wayne

Layasiksa

Submitted by no longer registered on 16 October, 2006 - 07:48.

Very good series of articles in La Prensa last week about the sustainable logging practices in Layasiksa on the Rio Prinzapolka. I sent them off to Mupitara as I know he's also involved in developing forestry management practices all along the Rio Prinzapolka.

When I went down the Rio San Juan I was struck by the deforestation -- but that was the CR side of the river. Totally deforested -- the Nica side had spots where the trees were harvested but was much MUCH more pristine than the our "eco-paradise" southern neighbors...

can

Submitted by dodgese on 19 October, 2006 - 09:49.

Southern yellow pine grow in Nicaragua?

To my knowalage this side is full of it

Submitted by toms on 19 October, 2006 - 11:20.

Lyin' Farmer John Wayne