1. Karen Ramos Yesenia Cantillo Adalberto González Andrea Sevilla David de la Hoz Deforestation and eco-project
2. Campaign topic Identify a deforestedarea in Barranquilla and carry out a campaign to promote the reforestation of this area.
3. KuioBuinaima is an ecological group formed by students of the Universidad del Norte focused in mitigate the impact of deforestation in the environment of Barranquilla, to get this, the group organize campaigns of ecological awareness with the people and enterprise placed in areas with problems of deforestation and cooperated with help in this issues. Brief description of group.
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5. Deforestation is the process by which the Earth loses its forests in the hands of men. To cut down a forest, the organisms that lived homeless. In many cases the animals, plants and other organisms die or they move to another forest plays In Colombia deforested between 1.5 to 2.2 million acres per year. This equals about 4 million football fields a year or 456 pitches in one hour or 7.6 pitches per minute! If this continues, Colombia will not have forests in 40 years! Deforestation in Colombia
6. One of the main causes of deforestation in Colombia: Planting of illicit crops Felling of trees, produced by the farmers to sell wood. Agriculture. Construction of house and buildings. Deforestation in Colombia Amazonas, Colombia Source: elespectador.com
9. Bothprocesses are linked and cause variousproblems. Sueloyerosion can produce destabilization of groundwater, which in turnpromotesthefloodsordroughts.Desertification in Colombia Guajira, Colombia Source: bellaciao.org
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12. Deforestation has a serious impact in the environment, it causes the loss of forest and threat the native flora and fauna. In Colombia, deforestation has become in a serious problem due to illicit crops, wood traffic, agriculture and constructions. In Barranquilla has generated important problems with the rains and urban floods. For these reasons is important to promote the reforestation and to create awareness about environment care, this is the principal objective of KuioBuinaima group Conclusions
