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Saving the rainforests

Science · Rainforests · ages 9-11
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. You see a small green frog picture on a chocolate bar wrapper. What does that logo mean?

    • The chocolate is made from real frogs
    • The chocolate was grown in a way that helps protect the rainforest
    • The chocolate came from a country with no rainforests

  2. Which of these is one of the ways people protect rainforests today?

    • Setting up protected areas
    • Cutting down more trees for farmland
    • Building highways through untouched forest

  3. Indigenous communities who have lived in a rainforest for generations are often its best protectors.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Look at the chart. Unprotected land loses 9 parts of forest and indigenous land loses 1 part. How many times more forest does unprotected land lose than indigenous land?

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    Answer: ______________

  5. After a hillside rainforest was cut down for cattle, volunteers planted thousands of new tree saplings there. What is this approach called?

    • Certification
    • Deforestation
    • Reforestation

  6. You want to buy a wooden chair made from a forest that was managed responsibly, not clear-cut. Which logo should you look for?

    • The FSC tree logo
    • A picture of a chair on the box
    • A recycling arrow symbol

  7. Besides parks, replanting, and certification labels, a country can also sign an international agreement to leave a rainforest area standing and get paid by other countries for doing so. What is this kind of approach called?

    • A tax on tourists who visit the rainforest
    • A trade deal for exporting timber
    • An agreement like REDD+ that pays countries to protect their forests

  8. Ben says the only way to protect a rainforest is to fence it off as a park and keep everyone out, including the people who already live there. What is he missing?

    • Parks never work to protect forests
    • Indigenous communities who already live there are often the most effective protectors of the land
    • Rainforests do not need any protection at all
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  1. The chocolate was grown in a way that helps protect the rainforest · That frog is the Rainforest Alliance seal. It shows the ingredients were grown without destroying the forest.
  2. Setting up protected areas · Protected areas and national parks make it against the law to cut down the trees inside them.
  3. True · Land managed by indigenous peoples usually loses far fewer trees than land with no such rights.
  4. 9 · 9 is 9 times 1, so unprotected land loses 9 times as much forest as indigenous-managed land.
  5. Reforestation · Reforestation means planting new trees on land where forest used to grow.
  6. The FSC tree logo · FSC stands for Forest Stewardship Council. Its logo shows the wood came from a responsibly managed forest.
  7. An agreement like REDD+ that pays countries to protect their forests · REDD+ agreements pay countries money to keep their forests standing instead of cutting them down.
  8. Indigenous communities who already live there are often the most effective protectors of the land · Research shows land where indigenous peoples hold legal rights loses fewer trees than many government-run parks.
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