The Environment Of The Panama Canal by Kaylee Hanks

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The Environment Of The Panama Canal

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE ENVIORNMENT OF THE PANAMA CANAL

BY Kaylee Hanks, Casey Declue, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Sylvia Hofstetter

PLANTS IN THE AREA

What we discovered is that the surrounding forest around the Panama
Canal is being torn down. There are less and less trees there every year.
We heard over 70 % of the forest has been cut down already.

PLANTS

We saw hundreds of different types of plants. Some of
these plants are rare. And if people keep tearing them
out, they could cause a rare plant to die out in that area.
There are still tons of trees in the forest surrounding the
canal, yet we noticed a big change in the size compared to a couple years ago.

WHAT THIS EFFECTs

The forest around the canal need lots of rain. We discovered that
If more of the trees are torn down, it may not rain as much as it used
to. This could cause the canal to possibly shrink. Plus the fresh water
in the canal would decrease. Lake Gatun is connected to the canal,and
would become dirtier. That lake is Panama City's drinking water.

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ANIMALS

We saw tons of species living in the forest around the canal.
But the cutting down trees effects them too. Some of these
guys have lost their homes, and have had to move closer together
since the forest is becoming smaller.The decrease in fresh water effects
them too.

FISH PROBLEMS IN THE CANAL

We learned that the country of Panama is thinking on making the canal
even bigger. We also realized that bigger fish were coming in from
the oceans. These fish could eat a lot of the population of another
species. And possibly cause them to become endangered in that
area.

SALT WATER

We discovered that the fresh water in the canal becomes more
salty every couple of years. The salt is getting in from the oceans that
the canal leads out to. This could lead to salt water fish moving in.
And the fresh water fish wouldn't have places to go, since they would
just swim down the canal and into another ocean.

SUMMARY

To sum it all up, we discovered that the Panama Canal
is having a lot of environmental problems. The forest around are being
torn down, causing animals to loose their homes, and the fresh water
in the canal to decrease. The canal itself is turning more and more
into salt water every year. And the fish in the canal could be endangered

More of the summary

due to salt water fish moving in, and them not being able to
survive in the salty water.

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