Our goal is to educate and assist people with making daily personal choices that will help heal our Planet, reduce their effects on climate change, save the remaining rainforests, and ultimately protect the wild birds and parrots that rely on the rainforests as their homes, nesting sites, and food sources.  Wild parrots will soon face extinction if deforestation does not end.  Since agriculture and livestock ranching are the top 2 causes of deforestation, we feel that choosing a vegan diet is the most effective way to reduce deforestation and ultimately save the wild birds and parrots.

 

Deforestation is having a dramatic effect on wild birds and parrots.  It is destroying their food sources and their homes.  Many of the birds do not survive once their homes have been destroyed.  What is deforestation?  Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).Apr 3, 2018.  Over 100 species of animals from the rainforest are killed each day due to deforestation! 

 

Deforestation also drives climate change. ... Fewer forests means larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—and increased speed and severity of global warming and climate change. Severe weather, flooding, and excessive heat is also taking its toll on wild birds and parrots and decimating wild bird populations.  

According to One Planet, the 5 Major Causes of Rainforest Destruction Include:
 

1. Agricultural Expansion

2. Livestock Ranching

3. Logging

4. Infrastructure Expansion

5. Overpopulation

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For more information on Rainforest Destruction, please visit:  https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/5-big-causes-of-deforestation-and-how-you-can-stop-it/