Deforestation Billboard

By: Faith Brings

 Murderer!
THATS WHAT YOU SHOULD
CALL YOURSELVES

WHY IS THAT? ALMOST ALL

THE POPULAR PRODUCTS YOU
USE ON A DAILY BASIS
CONTAIN PALM OIL AND
OTHER SUCH PRODUCTS YOU
USE, LIKE PAPER

WHICH IS EQUAL TO
SUPPORTING DEFORESTATION
IN WHICH ANIMALS AND
PLANTS ARE BEING KILLED
FOR YOUR OWN GAIN, LIKE
WASHING YOUR HAIR WITH
YOUR FAVORITE HAIR BRAND
 THE AMAZON RAINFOREST WHICH
ROUGHLY ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT
2,488,642 SQUARE MILES, HAS
LOST 15 PERCENT OF ITS FOREST
COVER SINCE 1970 ALONE AND
YOUR ATTRIBUTING TO THE
PROBLEM

TAKE THIS! ANIMALS AREN'T THE AS YOU CAN SEE THE AMOUNT OF
ONLY ONES EFFECTED BY DEFORESTATION IN BORNEO
DEFORESTATION, THE LOCAL FROM 1950-2020 IS A HUGE
PEOPLE ARE EFFECTED AS WELL DEVASTATION

ANIMALS AND PEOPLE ALIKE, ARE

LOSING THEIR HOMES, ARE DIEING
FROM THE LACK OF FOOD AND
SHELTER, AND THE BIGGEST BLOW
IS THAT EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW
THIS, WE'RE STILL TAKING AWAY
THEIR VERY LIVELIHOODS, BY
DOING NOTHING
 YOU CAN HELP!
BY CHANGING THESE DEAD FORESTS INTO A BUDDING
NEW HOME. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE THE
CHANGE, TO SAVE LIVES AND EDUCATE YOUR
FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY. ABOUT HOW
YOUR ACTIONS HERE CAN IMPACT FORESTS
THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY AND BY MAKING SURE
THE PRODUCTS YOU BUY ARE NOT FOREST DERIVED
PRODUCTS AND 100% POST-CONSUMER CONTENT.
MATERIALS AND BUYING FROM THE COMPANIES THAT
HAVE COMMITMENT TO REDUCING DEFORESTATION
THROUGH AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
PURCHASING POLICY
End of Billboard
The WWF estimates that there are fewer that 3,000 Sumatran elephants left, the
species has lost 70 percent of its habitat in the last 25 years, and 85 percent of its
remaining habitat is unprotected and vulnerable to palm oil plantation expansion. As
you cans see on the two graphs, while palm oil production goes up, the elephant
population goes down and the rate of their deaths goes up.
Extra Information

How do animals adapt after deforestation and how does it effect their survival rate?

They don't! What happens is they either die or after they lose their homes they would wander out onto the many roads and get hit. Then
bigger animals who are also wandering around starving would get hit in the process of trying to eat off the dead animal. Deforestation is
just like poaching, but more, its making animals go extinct and even many species of plants. Think like this, every day we lose more and
more cures that could have possibly cured cancer, eye opening isn't it?

Extra deforestation facts that I found interesting.

The rainforest covered fourteen percent of Earth, but now only covers six percent, and no less than 40 years.

We are losing 137 plant, animal and insects each day which equals 50,000 species each year. With that we are losing possible cures for
threatening diseases such as cancer and other.

What people are doing to the forest.

We are palm oil farming, cattle farming, crop farming, mining and building dams. These are all doing big damage to the homes of
natives and animals. Its not even just taking away their homes, but killing them. With palm oil cropping they burn the forests down and
orangutan's along with them. People try to help gather them before they burn the area, but theres not enough. The background picture
of the first billboard it a palm oil cropping victim. For your information Rspo is the org that promoted palm oil cropping. Then building
dams, floods huge chunks of forest pushing out natives and the animals that live in those sections where the forest are being flooded. If
thats not enough, after awhile of the water sitting in the now flooded forest the forest becomes rotten and water becomes acidic. The
other three things we are doing to the forest are obvious and and don't need to be explained.
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borneo.jpg?w=484&h=509

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deforestation-21.jpg?w=323

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