Minerals and Oil
| NATURAL RESOURCES such as metals, minerals, rocks and oil, leaving it vulnerable to EXPLOITATION.
Can you think which materials in the pictures below might have come from the rainforest?
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GOLD and DIAMONDS are often mined in forest areas. ALUMINIUM, which is used to make drink and food cans, comes from rock called bauxite, which is also extracted from the ground in large amounts. OIL is drilled in the forest too. Communities can be thrown off their land to make way for mining and drilling. Sometimes the water from the rivers they use for cooking and washing becomes polluted and they become sick. Fish in the rivers also die, so the communities have less to eat. Read more about each threat to the rainforest by clicking on the links to the right, or
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