Chapter 9 (Jalen Jones)

Chapter 9 begins with a location in Brazil known as Reserve 1202. In this area there are 25 acres of untouched forest, a location that is controlled by Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, also known as BDFFP. Founded by Tom Lovejoy BDFFP, was made to protect areas from being cut down by those who seeked to use it as their own property. For example farmers and ranchers. His beliefs ran strong as he sent a plan to the Brazilian government which was later approved and he studied the main forest. The author continues to show how messed up a world 50 million square miles of habitable land has been halfway destroyed. This being said she makes a connection to the bird species and their lack of growth. Lack of growth is something that has been common around the world due to the input of humans. We take and destroy resulting in extinct species and dilemmas such as pollution, basically altering earths natural system