Another Interesting Article to Read-

COCAINE KILLING FORESTS IN COLOMBIA

This article was found on January 29, 2011. It is an interesting article so you should check it out. The title is interesting. I would read more to find out why cocaine is killing forests in Colombia.

Important Facts from the Article: 
* tropical forest have been chopped down to grow coca plants, whose leaves supply the world with cocaine
* surround coca plantations suffer particularly high levels of deforestation, too, found the first study to quantify how coca is reshaping landscapes in Colombia
* the relationships between coca plantations and deforestation are complex  
*60,000 families that grow coca in Columbia and this is a family enterprise 
* Davalos started studying the connection between coca and deforestation in Colombia more than a decade ago
* Peru and Bolivia, Colombia is one of just three countries that produce coca leaves for the world's cocaine market
* At first scientist thought that coca might actually help reduce or stabilize clear-cutting because it is such an efficient crop. Compared to root like cassava, which requires a lot of space and effort to harvest but bring in a relatively small amount of money, coca is valuable for its dense leaf cover, and it fetches high prices. That means that coca farmers can pack a lot of value into a little space. 
* by 1990s though studies started to suggest that instead of slowing deforestation, coca was actually speeding it up
* forest cover dropped  from 56 percent to 46 percent in Central region of Columbia, and from 82 percent to 78 percent in South  
* coca accounts for just a small percentage of total deforestation rates
* areas that are closest to coca plantations, the study found, suffer disproportionate rates of deforestation, even after taking into account the location of roads, cities, rivers, mountains and other factors affect how accessible those areas are.
     
    The article is about how cocaine is killing forests in Columbia. It focuses on the relationship between coca plantations and deforestation. There was studies down by Davalos to study the connection between coca and deforestation. 


   It is important to read this article to know about the rest of the world. This article will also be important to read that not just cutting down trees for paper but the forest is becoming deforest because of the coca plant. The article is important to read to see what is happening in the rest of the world that had to do with science and how that environment can affect us. It was interesting to learn how the coca plant with its plantations can be a part of deforestation. It is good that one scientist decided to study the relationship between coca plantations and deforestation. This way that we can try to stop or prevent less forest from being deforestation or we could come up with another way to grow the coca plants. 


  I would use this in the classroom as a current events article. I would use this article when talking about forests like if I was teaching third grade. It is important for students to know about the world. A good way to teach students about the world is through bringing in a current article. It would be a great idea as a teacher to have students to also bring in current event articles about something happening in the world protaining to science. It is a way for students to expand their horizons and look up something that the student is interested in. I would also teach the students about the jungle and use this article to expand about what is happening to the different forests in the world and about deforestation. I would also explain about what can happen to a forest and what can cause deforestation to a forest. This article will be very helpful when I talk about the South America forest.









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This video is about the Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. This video explains through graphs and pictures about why the The Amazon Rainforest is a deforestation hot spot. 





This video explains about why we should save the Amazon Rainforest. It is important to teach students the reasons why to save a rainforest.