VCE Environmental Science » forest http://vceenviroscience.edublogs.org Supporting your learning about Sustainability Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:57:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Less than 10% of the world’s forests are protected http://vceenviroscience.edublogs.org/2009/05/24/less-than-10-of-the-worlds-forests-are-protected/ http://vceenviroscience.edublogs.org/2009/05/24/less-than-10-of-the-worlds-forests-are-protected/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 07:51:44 +0000 brittgow http://vceenviroscience.edublogs.org/?p=215

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The Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed to by 191 countries in 2004, stated that at least 10% of the world’s forests should be protected to allow sufficient protection of biological diversity. Currently, only 7.7% globally is protected, although regions of the Amazon, south-east Asia and Alaska have over 50% of their forests preserved. Read more here.

Your task is to create a virtual tour using Mapwing of the world’s Biodiversity Hot spots, using the map we have in class. You can do a virtual tour of the world’s Coral Reefs at Mapwing. 

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