Welcome Year 9 S.O.S.E Forests - An Environmental Issue.

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Welcome Year 9 S.O.S.E Forests - An Environmental Issue

Where are the Rainforests? Source: Where are the Rainforests, 2013.

Source: Edtechlends, Layers of the Rainforest, 2013.

Vegetation. 1 Rainforest, 2 Tall open forest, 3 Open eucalypt forest, 4 Tropical euc savanna, 5 Humid eucalypt woodland, 6 Dry eucalypt woodlands, 7 Mallee, 8 Melaleuca forest & woodlands, 9 Mulga, 10 Other acacia woodlands, 11 Spinifex, 12 Spinifex/mulga mixture, 13 Hummock of Zygochloa, 14 Mitchell grassland, 15 Sclerophyll heaths, 16 Chenopod scrubs, 17 Lakes. (Source Australia’s Native Vegetation: A summary of Australia’s Major Vegetation Groups 2007).

Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe BRazil has warned the UN of the 'major suffering' the Belo Monte dam is causing. (Source: Survival, 2013)

The Kayapo tribe lives alongside the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon Rainforest (Source: The Rainforest Foundation, 2013)

Eumundi Cleared (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Eumundi Timber Yard (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Timber felled Cooroy 1912 (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Fig in the Blackall Range ready to be felled (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Woombye Cleared (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Aborigines of the Kabi Kabi language group of tribes gathered near Tytherleigh Falls on Bridge Creek. The Creek flowed into the Obi Obi at Baroon Pocket, Maleny. This area was inundated by the waters of Baroon Pocket Dam in April The Dallambara, (Dalja) and Nalbo tribal groups had association with the country around Baroon Pocket. (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Group of Aboriginal people in the Noosa District 1895 (Source: Sunshine Coast Libraries, 2013).

Deforestation in the Amazon (Source: The Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Impact, 2013)The Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Impact

Deforestation in the Amazon (Source: The Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Impact, 2013)The Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Impact

(Source: Notes from Ethnoground, 2013)