Deforestation In Brazil

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Environmental Sustainability with Deforestation in Brazil
Gabrielle Deppoleto

Brazil, a country of natural resources running everywhere needing saving, destroyed everyday by humankind. with 2/3’s of the Amazon forest home in brazil, we must keep an eye on how it is being sustained, what is being done to keep it safe and when we believe we will be able to not only stop deforestation, but grow back the earth’s creatures natural habitats. The sheer beauty of our world is worth trying to help our ecosystem and helping the environment and ensuring its sustainability.

Through 2002-2003 brazil has lost more than 24,000 Kilometers squared of the Amazon forest. Together is has been estimated that they have lost more than 500.000 of the Amazon forest. Brazil has decided not to just put their efforts into reducing the lost of the Amazon forest but also they are focusing on the already loss of the forest. Trying to see what and how that can utilize that area. To lessen future forest loss they are think that they must try and increase and sustain the productivity of their farms, pastures, plantations, and scrubland in addition to restoring species and ecosystems to the habitats that were destroyed or are currently trying to be preserved and extended. Brazil is also trying to restore their natural resources and rainforest by reducing wasteful land-use practices, while consolidating (making the best of) gains on existing cleared lands, and improving already developed lands they will try to diminish the need to clear any more rainforest. they are also trying to use our new age technology to generate higher yielding crops in the surrounding areas of this forest, regenerating the soil...

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