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                                  Deforestation and plastic

Did you know that deforestation is caused for many reasons, one of them being farming. One of the things that people farm on the land is avocados - although there are many other causes, such as the meat industry, palm oil, sugar and coffee plantations.  Using forest land is good for the farmers, and for avocado farmers for example, because they are becoming more popular to buy the farmers are upping prices, so the producers are making a larger profit.
                                                             

So try reduce the amount of avocados you are buying as you may be destroying the rainforest.  Or make sure you check if products are fair trade or rainforest alliance friendly.

Did you know that around 36 football fields of trees in the rainforests of our world are lost every minute, think how many trees that is!

The plastic problem

 As well as that 8 million tonnes of plastic go into the sea each year.

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So when you go to KFC or anywhere else, refuse plastic straws, and use paper ones instead, or just don't use one at all.

Try be as enviromentaly friendly as possible. Don't throw away rubbish, recycle it or make eco bricks out of it, just dont let it destroy our planet.

                                             Rainforests 

Another large issue that is global is the amount of rainforests we are destroying. Each day people are burning 200,000 acres of rainforest, as they do that they are stealing the homes of rainforest animals. 

How would you feel if your home as stolen for you because another person thought that they needed it?  To resolve the issue try use less paper, When you want to solve a quick maths problem jot it down on a scrap piece of paper, don’t waste trees by getting a new one out each time, or why not when you are telling your life story into your diary make sure you use every line and don’t waste space. 

Look at the difference between these two pictures. This is the difference we can make, the one on the left is where someone has destroyed hat could have been a beautiful rainforest, and the one on the right is what can happen if we try stop people chopping down the rainforest and if we stop wasting paper.