Running head: ISSUES IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE PROJECT

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) states, Conservation implications include possible manual
interventions in forest fragments to increase population recovery and genetic diversity
retention (pg. 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 is 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 (pg. 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), Detailed research into such issues is necessary to help reduce the high
rates of rain forest biodiversity alteration and loss (pg. 3). Students can be grouped to
find a way to help conserve more of the rainforests and in what other ways the rainforests

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are disappearing.
The article Assessing the Impact of Deforestation of the Atlantic Rainforest on
Ant-Fruit 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 (page 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 world wide 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 (pg. 60).

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Additionally, over a third (39%) of the students mentioned that cutting and burning the
forest released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, increasing global warming (pg. 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 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), The northern
Wet Tropics rainforest of Australia was declared a world heritage site in 1988 (pg.
173). This is a bit of victory to the conservation of rainforest. However, as this rainforest
was created into a heritage, many tourist that walk through to visit the Forest. To felicitate
conversation the students should also look into the effects of tourism in the rainforest.