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Issues in Childrens Literature Project

Sandra Flores

Tarleton State University

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Narrative

The article Variable Gene Dispersal Conditions and Spatial Deforestation Patterns Can
Interact to Affect Tropical Tree Conservation Outcomes discusses an abundance of tree
conservation, as well as deforestation. Its profound research of deforestations throughout many
rainforest is impressive. It is appropriate to teach students the importance of conservation. With
much logging taking place around the world, it is crucial to conserve the many rainforests that
are left. Kashimshetty, Pelikan, and Rogstad (2015) state, Conservation implications include
possible manual interventions in forest fragments to increase population recovery and genetic
diversity retention (p. 1). When many forests have been lost due to logging and other natural
disasters, science steps in to create a new way of saving what is left. With the new information
that is distributed throughout the article students are engaging to have discussions; for example,
Most of the variation in mean population size, retention of founding alleles, and population
subdivision/inbreeding levels for both the entire fragments as well as recovery regions was
attributable to differences in gene dispersal condition (p. 14). With extensive technology and
advancement of science, there are numerous ways to create and conserve various plants. To
facilitate conversation, the information given could be used in extended discussions. In additions,
students can research what they find interesting or not from what is within the article. The
conversation of deforestation, as well as conservation, can be elaborated, as done so by,
Kashimshetty, Pelikan, and Rogstad (2015) stating, Detailed research into such issues is
necessary to help reduce the high rates of rain forest biodiversity alteration and loss (p. 3).
Students can be grouped to find a way to help conserve more of the rainforests and in what other
ways the rainforests are disappearing.
The article Assessing the Impact of Deforestation of the Atlantic Rainforest on Ant-Fruit

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Interactions: A Field Experiment Using Synthetic Fruits, gives insight into what effects
deforestation has on the smallest items in the rainforest as mentioned by, Bieber, Silva, Sendoya,
and Oliveira (2014), Consequences of the ongoing deforestation process of the Brazilian
Atlantic rainforest to a relatively neglected part of the dispersal process of many zoochoric
plants (p. 7). Therefore, if these plants continue to be harmed, small insects will be greatly
affected from deforestation in rainforests. It is crucial to inform students of the harms and ways
they may be able to conserve the rainforests around them. In addition, students are able to learn
more about their area and what harms their ecosystem. Not only do students in Texas relate to
the importance of conservation, but at some point in their school career, they should put it into
practice. A worldwide day to clean their town roads or to recycle materials, will positively
impact the negative effects already placed on our ecosystem.
In the article Tropical rainforests: a case study of UK, 13-year-olds knowledge and
understanding of these environments students embark on a study of what human activities harm
the rainforests. The conversation of rainforests, and what harms human actions have on them is
important. In childrens literature books, students are being informed of the harmful causes, or of
the magnificent things the rainforest has to offer as such that mentioned by, Dove (2012),
students hold both strong opinions and also alternative conceptions about a wide range of
environmental concerns including air pollution, global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and
rainforest loss (p. 60). Additionally, over a third (39%) of the students mentioned that cutting
and burning the forest released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, increasing global warming
(p. 63). It is certainly relevant to include rainforest information in classrooms. Students have a
voice and a right to know what is happening to the world around them. To facilitate conversation
for this topic would be to give a group of students their own rainforest. Students must know that

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the affects around the world come back to them. Having read the article it has made the curious
side of me want to see just how much of the rainforests are affected or conserved.
For the article Reading, learning and enacting: interpretation at visitor sites in the Wet
Tropics rainforest of Australia discusses the importance of informing and educating the public
about events mentioned by, McNamara and Prideaux (2010) such as, The northern Wet Tropics
rainforest of Australia was declared a world heritage site in 1988 (p. 173). This is a bit of
victory to the conservation of rainforest. However, as this rainforest was created into a heritage,
many tourists walk through to visit the Forest. To felicitate conversation the students should also
look into the effects of tourism in the rainforest.