RUBBER TAPPERS

WHY DID WE COME?

• Rubber tappers came to the Amazon Rainforest in the 1870s
• Rubber tappers came to the Amazon rainforest because they were hired-
• to start working on rubber plantations in the Amazon.
• Rubber tappers do not harm the rainforest.
• But when rubber prices dropped almost all of the plantations were closed down.

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• But some rubber tappers stayed in the amazon to continue working on rubber tapping.
• But there is diffulties between us the rubber tappers and loggers.
• Since loggers our cutting down the trees we can't collect the sap to make rubber.

HOW WE USE OUR RESOURCES.

• Rubber tappers use sap to make rubber
• Then we use it to sell to the people.
• The producers will make their new-
• or a product that is already made and they are producing it again.
• Like our iPad cases.

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• The rubber on the side is from rubber tappers.
• The rubber tappers are helpful because they give us our every day products.

WHY WE WANT TO PRESURVE

• Rubber Tappers use the rainforest by making rubber from the sap from certain trees.
• The trees they use are called rubber trees.
• All of the natural rubber comes from rubber trees.
• We want to preserve the rain forest because we collect sap from the trees liked I-
• said and if we won't be able to collect the rubber from the trees Brazil would have no rubber.

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• To get rubber from the trees we go to our rubber trees and we hook up-
• our buckets to the trees and start scraping the latex and then it go into our buckets.
• We don't harm the trees in any way we are just collecting the latex.
• If we didn't collect the latex then Brazil would have no-
• tires, rubber bands, gloves to protect our hands and ext.

JUSTIFIED

• We need the rainforest because we are making rubber and-
• selling it to Brazil witch then they are selling it for more money.
• We do not harm the rainforest.
• All we do is give Brazil more money and maybe they give the money to-
• the people who really need it.

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