Tropical Rainforests: Threats and Challenges

Follow our indigenous environmental campaigner as he introduces you to his rainforest world and explores the threats facing it. This title considers the value of rainforests, both locally and globally in terms of their goods and services. It then explores the impacts of deforestation and the threats from logging, cattle ranching, commercial palm oil production and oil and mineral extraction. Climate change, soil erosion, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and the impacts on indigenous communities are all considered.

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1 AQA

Unit 3.1 Living with the physical environment

Section B: The living world, section 3.1.2.2 Tropical rainforests

Tropical rainforest ecosystems have a range of distinctive characteristics.
Deforestation has economic and environmental impacts
Tropical rainforests need to be managed to be sustainable

2 Edexcel A

Component 1, Topic 3: Ecosystems, biodiversity and management – tropical rainforests.

Key Idea 3.4 Tropical rainforests show a range of distinguishing features
Key Idea 3.5 Tropical rainforest ecosystems provide a range of goods and services, some of which are under threat

3 Edexcel B

Component 3: Topic 8: Forests under threat – tropical rainforests

Key Idea 8.1 The structure, functioning and adaptations of the tropical rainforest reflect the equatorial climate
Key Idea 8.3 Tropical rainforests are threatened directly by deforestation and indirectly by climate change
Key Idea 8.5 Conservation and sustainable management of tropical rain forests is vital if goods and services are not to be lost for future generations

4 Eduqas A

Key Idea 5.3: Processes and interactions within ecosystems

Key Question 5.3.2 The location and distinctive features of the tropical rainforest ecosystem and its climate; nutrient cycle; the concept of biodiversity; ways in which ecosystems provide people with key services.
Key Question 5.4.2 How human activity can have impacts, at a range of scales, on the tropical rainforest ecosystem
Key Question 5.4.3 Sustainable environmental strategies to manage habitat and biodiversity in tropical rainforests

Key Idea 8.1: Consumerism and its impact on the environment

Key Question 8.1.1 The links between growing global interdependence, consumerism and ecosystem destruction in tropical rainforests

5 Eduqas B

Key Idea 3.1: How ecosystems function

Enquiry Question 3.1.1 The location and distribution of biomes at a global scale and their relationship to climate zones.
Enquiry Question 3.1.2 The physical processes that link living/biotic and non-living/abiotic components.
Enquiry Question 3.2.3 The reasons for conservation and management. Strategies for sustainable management.

6 OCR A

Topic 2.1 Ecosystems of the Planet

Key Idea 2.1.3 There are major tropical rainforests in the world.
Key Idea 2.1.5 Bio-diverse ecosystems are under threat from human activity.

7 OCR B

Topic 4: Sustaining Ecosystems

Section 4.1 Why are natural ecosystems important?
Section 4.2 Why should tropical rainforests matter to us?

8 WJEC Geography (Wales)

Key Idea 5.3: Processes and interactions within ecosystems

Key Question 5.3.2 The location and distinctive features of the tropical rainforest ecosystem and its climate; nutrient cycle; the concept of biodiversity; ways in which ecosystems provide people with key services.
Key Question 5.4.2 How human activity can have impacts, at a range of scales, on the tropical rainforest ecosystem
Key Question 5.4.3 Sustainable environmental strategies to manage habitat and biodiversity in tropical rainforests

Key Idea 8.1: Consumerism and its impact on the environment

Key Question 8.1.1 The links between growing global interdependence, consumerism and ecosystem destruction in tropical rainforests

9 Scottish National 5 Geography

Global Issues

10 CCEA Geography (Northern Ireland)

Theme C: Managing Our Resources

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