Introduction
As the Amazon is important to animal wildlife and to us, it is in the mitts of being destroyed. To reduce deforestation in the Amazon rain forest individual people need be aware of the effects of deforestation caused from the demand for products produced from the Amazon region. Or, start an organised tree farming system and farm trees every 15 - 30 years, this would be a great way to stop deforestation because the companies that need to use products from the trees will not have to cut down an important asset to our world. Companies must change where they buy their products from to reduce the demand of Brazil to increase farming in the Amazon. Clear cutting the Amazon forest instead of burning it will have a more positive effect
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Deforestation is one of the primary greenhouse gases and not only contributes to the greenhouse affect but also towards global warming. Statistics prove that 20% of the current global warming is a result to Deforestation. From Deforestation the ground becomes impenetrable due to the lack of roots to receive water to keep the soil moist, this makes the forest more dry and less shelter for the wildlife of the Amazon forest. The most common way that the Amazon forest is being deforested is by burning the forest. This is a faster and more effective way for the Brazilian government to have more land compared to cutting down trees and logging them out of the Amazon forest. But burning the Amazon rain forest has a massive effect on the wildlife not only because they would burn to death, but because the burning of the Amazon forest acts like a chain reaction. When the animals burn this has an effect on the animals that either eat from the tree that has been burned or the type of animal living in the area. Since the Amazon forest is being deforested at a rate of 200,000 square miles per year eventually animals will run out of there basic needs because the animals or plants they eat of will be gone. This is all a result of Brazil wanting more money to keep up with the industrial world by having more farms and more land to expand the fast growing …show more content…
Iraq, Algeria, Iran, Cyprus, Malta etc. they need wood to keep their fireplaces on so they do not die of hypothermia. If deforestation is stopped, then we will have a lack of important resources such as Ipe and Mahogany. If the Brazilian government gets rid of the Amazon they will have 5,500,000 km² of more land to use for whatever they needed such as more farms roads or houses. So on one hand, deforestation is a great income for the Brazilian economy from cattle which provide the world with beef and tanned leather. But on the other hand, deforestation in the Amazon rain forest effects global warming, risks the lives of some of the worlds greatest wildlife and
What would happen if one day the Amazon rainforest disappeared? The Amazon rainforest will disappear is not an assumption. It absolutely will be happen if people keep on deforesting the Amazon rainforest for many different demands. Huge amounts of area in Amazon were deforested because of agricultural pursuits. Also, the deforestation rate has increased in other ways, such as obtain more land for living and excessive uses of wood. Therefore, a large amount of trees were cut down and led to forest destruction. People have done these kinds of activities for many years and these deforestation activities have brought a lot of permanent and long term issues. Although the society has started to consider the problem of deforestation, it is not easy to solve the issues completely. The land desertification can be a huge area and it is almost cannot be able to control. In addition, it is not only threatening the people and animals in the Amazon, the world is also threatened by deforestation. Thus, deforestation is one of the biggest problems in the world that people have to consider because it costs three main long term effects: land desertification, species extinction and climate transformation.
The Amazon Rain Forest crosses several national boundaries in South America, although the majority of it is located in Brazil. It covers over 3,562,000 acres, making it the largest in the world. But globally, over 138,600 acres of rain forest are lost each year to deforestation, 50,000 of those in Brazil alone (Holdsforth), and the world's rain forests are quickly disappearing. Deforestation in the Amazon occurs primarily for three reasons: clear-cutting, fragmentation, and edge effects.
Deforestation is the clearing of a forest and/or cutting down of trees for human benefits such as agriculture, wood exports, etc. Deforestation is the cause of numerous environmental impacts such as habitat loss, flooding and soil erosion. It can also cause climate change, by reducing the amount of rainfall and changing the amount of sunlight reflected from Earth’s surface and increases the risk of forest . Tree growth is important for biodiversity because they absorb carbon dioxide which is a harmful greenhouse gas . However, since deforestation reduces natural carbon sinks, it disrupts the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air causing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air to increase. This poses a serious threat since carbon dioxide traps the sun’s heat and radiated light inside the earth’s atmosphere. So, with the increase in carbon dioxide more heat is trapped and thus adding to the effects of global warming. Among the many places where deforestation takes place, Amazon seems to be one of the most affected ones. More than 20 percent of it is already gone, and much more of it is severely threatened due to deforestation . It is estimated that the Amazon alone is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year .
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The Amazon Rainforest or know to many as the “Amazon Jungle” sits on about 2.124 million miles2 and is home to about 10 million species of animals and over 40,000 different plant species. Not including over 2.5 million different insect species. The amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on earth. The Amazon rainforest is located in South America , it covers much of northwest Brazil and extends into Colombia,Peru and other countries. Part of the Amazon Rainforest is the River that flows through South America and is a big part of the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon is the seventh oldest rainforest in the world and has existed for about 55 years.
In 2000 the population was 174.5 million people and now it is 200.4 million. The majority of this growth is people that live in the amazons. Government started deforestation for two main reasons, clear more land for houses and roads, and to have more jobs and the selling of wood. The US population increased from 247.2 million to 318.9 million in the last 26 years. It tells us that the deforestation in Brazil is being affected a lot in the last 16 years, and experts wait for more increased of population in Brazil caused by the deforestation.Deforestation of tropical forests affects not only the plants and animals of these regions but also their human inhabitants. The Indian populations of Amazonia are successful managers of the forest. Long ago, they discovered the secrets of sustainable use of its resources. I discuss the knowledge and management of the forest environment exhibited by the Yanomami and Kayapo Indians of Brazilian Amazonia and the importance that their knowledge and their presence as part of the forest ecosystem has for us all. Not only is this forest ecosystem now being destroyed at a rapid rate, but we (the non-Indians) do not yet know how to care for and make use of whatever areas of forest will be left when this process of destruction is brought to a
Deforestation is fast becoming one of the world’s worst environmental/geographical occurring disasters known to mankind, and is due to humankind’s greed, ignorance and carelessness when considering the future of our environment.
Nowadays deforestation is the one of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the world. Deforestation is cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there might be serious impacts in future. For instance, extinction of endemic species of animals and plants which will be feral, increase of greenhouse gas emissions which may lead to global warming and consecutive catastrophes, destruction of home for indigenous residents which is considered as violation of human rights. Some people can argue with these drawbacks telling that deforestation have more valuable benefits such as growth of economics, production of food and providing better opportunities for life for poor families. However, these benefits are quite temporary and government of that countries and world organisations tries to halt deforestation proposing several solutions. Deforestation problem is especially acute in the Brazilian Amazon, where its rate is much high comparing with other regions. This paper will describe world-wide rainforests, causes and effects of deforestation, and evaluate possible solutions of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
In South America lies the largest and most wondrous rainforest in the world, the Amazon Rainforest. This 1.4 billion acre forest represents over half of the planets remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most bio-diverse tract of rainforest in the world. Ten percent of all known species on the planet are found in this rain forest, most of which have yet to be discovered. For the past century, the Amazon has been gradually decreasing in size due to agricultural expansion, ranching, infrastructure projects, energy exploration and illegal logging. At its current state, the Amazon is losing land equal to the size of the state of Delaware every year. The destruction of this forest releases 340 million tons of carbon per year according to the World Wildlife Foundation, or WWF, which in turn cause climate changes everywhere around the world. Undiscovered species can hold the key to curing a plethora of diseases, but if those species become extinct those keys are lost forever. If nothing is done to prevent this, the world’s treasure trove of bio-diversity will cease to exist, creating irreversible damage to not only the South American people but also the rest of the world.
The increasing rate of deforestation in the Amazon causes negative effects for the world as a whole. Bradford, A (2015), 300 billion tonnes of carbon is stored in trees around the world, with more being cut down and burnt to clear way for land, carbon is
The Amazon Rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest that we have today on our planet. It covers a wide range expanding almost entirely across from East to West of South America. It is most famous for its broad biodiversity and includes the famous Amazon River that is home to rare and diverse species. Today, the Amazon Rainforest is under threat of complete deforestation and has greatly lost more than half of its tropical rainforest due to cattle ranching, soy bean farming, sugar cane plantations, palm oil and biofuel agriculture. The indigenous people are doing their best to fight against the government to protect their land and conserve the rainforest but without capital finance, it is seeming to be an impossible project.
AMAZON DEFORESTATION Hello class welcome to my speech today i will be saying why we should not be cutting down so many trees in the amazon. If you don't know what i mean it is called deforestation well since we are talking about the biggest forest in the world amazon deforestation. First of all you may ask why do we cut these trees. We cut down trees because we sell it to people, we use it as fuel,we also cut down lots of them to make flat land so we can make communities.
The Impacts of Deforestation in the Tropical Rainforest Deforestation is having an effect on all tropical rainforests. This is not just negative effects but also some very positive effects from the deforestation of the rainforests. From deforestation there are many problems that can be caused by this, environmental, social, economic and political issues all from the destruction of the rainforests across the world. There has been dramatic deforestation across the world for some time now and many of the Earths natural forests have been cleared or degraded so that they can be used for other purposes. Tropical forests are being destroyed at an ever-increasing rate.
Chapter 1 Introduction 1. Introduction Deforestation is defined as the conversion of forest cover to non-forest land by human activities and is one of the biggest environmental challenges today. Forests all around the world are threatened by unsustainable deforestation but especially severe has the clearing of the tropical rainforests been [6]. Satellite imagery provides an efficient means to retrieve information on the status and extent of forest resource and changes thereof. The large are coverage and high spatial resolution of newly launched optical and radar satellite systems offer new opportunities to remotely estimate and access land cover information on a wall-to-wall basis.
Commercial logging for lumber or fuel supplies is another factor. The cutting down of trees for a profit is also depleting our forests. Another travesty of commercial logging is the damage caused to other trees that surround or are in the path of the trees being harvested. Logging also increases the destruction to forests in the event of fire as outline in the article entitled “Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates and Consequences” written by Philip M. Fearnside, “Logging greatly increase the susceptibility of forest to fire. Once fire enters it kills trees and increase...