Dear Future Generations, Sorry

In Kakapo class we have been very focused on helping the enviroment for the future and now. We have been inspired by Prince EA and his video called; Dear Future Generation. This video has inspired us to make slides, posters and art about the Rainforest and its unique animals.
(Here is my slide about the Rainforest)

In the video he explains to the future generation about life now. He also explains the problems in the world.  (Such as deforestation, Climate Change, Rising sea levels, ect) He also explains that animals are not the problems but humans are. He says that he is disapointed about the events happening in the world caused by humans. He says he is going to do something and let his voiced be heard.

Like Prince EA I am also in support of the enviroment and will do things I am not used to to protect and help it no matter what it takes. The enviroment is the live source of the human race and shortly we will run out. Animals aren't destroying our lives, we are ruining our chances of a longer survival. If we keep this track of so called "progress" humans will be like other the animals that we've put enxtinct and become extinct ourselves. Unfortunately the future generation  wont be around to see because of the mistakes and problems we caused now.

Rainforest Report

Over the past couple of weeks my class and I have been researching about the rainforest and have come up with many cool items. We have been researching about the rainforest because of the current crisis, many people are cutting down aceres and aceres of rainforests to use for farming and cattle farms.

We cut down an average of 55,600 trees per minute, every day we cut down an average of 42,000000 trees per day, and every year we cut down a whopping 3.5 to 7 billion trees per year, and even though we have around 3 trillion trees although that is a lot with the average of 3.5 to 7 billion trees cut down per in no time will we have no trees.

we did this art to remind us and others

 who come into our class that we support

and are always going to help the

enviroment.

To create this piece we first had to make the plants outline from rainforest plants we researched. We used different sizes to make effect and layering, when it came to the shading we used darker colours for the leaves at the back and lighter shading for the leaves at the front.

We tried our hardest when we needed to make it look realistic and very detailed. Once we finished the basic design of the leaves including the colour we then moved on to dye the background. I used green dye as a detail to make it look like there were other green plants behind the main ones. Once the background was finished we went online to research and find rainforest birds. Once we did we got a seperate piece of paper and drew the basic outline of the bird and then coloured it in the colours they are (The name of my bird is the blue and yellow Macaw). We then dyed the areas that needed to be dyed so the colour would be filled and give it more detail. We then cut it out and used the off cuttings as the hold for the 3D shape.

The challenging part for me was when drawing I strained my arm a lot and it made me very tired. Although I strained my arm it was a very fun activity and everyone was able to be as creative as they wanted.

Other than doing the art we have also been making slides or posters about the rainforest (Rainforest Research) and we have been  researching about the affect of the rainforests around the world. (Did you know Rainforests cover 13 percent of the Earth) While doing this resarch I realized that the rainforests are more important than we think. We are taking them for granted and not realize the affect the rainforest has and without it where humanity would be now. I made this slide as a reminder and a warning that if we carry on with what we are doing humantiy 

will be like many animal species and be extinct.

The Rainforest Crisis

As we know we have many Rainforests, Amazon Rainforest, Congo Rainforest and many more. But over the past 100 years humans have been cutting down acres and acres of Rainforest trees. The average amount of trees cut down per minute is around 40 football fields, the amount cut down per day is around 100,000 acres worth, and the amount cut down per year is astonishing the number of trees cut down per year is around 3.5 to 7 billion trees.

But the sad part is that all these Rainforests and trees are cut down for money. People break animals home and the homes of many rare species of animals for their own greed and selfish desires. We need to do something. Right now we have around 3.04 trillion trees which is a lot but we are shortly going to run out if we don't be more cautious and think about the actions we make. If  we prevent the thought of cutting down trees and tearing down Rainforests than we wont have any problems going into the future.