Amazon Rainforest Research Paper

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Since 1978 more than 750,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Guyana. One main reason and purpose the amazon forest is getting destroyed is because of subsistence farmers who cut down trees to simply produce crops for their families and local consumption. More than 3 quarters of that land was used for cattle ranching. ‘’Rainforests are being destroyed for beef. The land is set on fire in order to get rid of the trees .The cleared land is then turned into grass pastured for cows’’. ‘’During the past 40 years, close to 20 percent of the amazon rain forest has been cut down. ’Humans are the main cause of rainforest destruction. We are cutting down rainforests for

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