Exploitation of Our Environment

Exploitation of Our Environment

The rainforest is being exploited this means that it is not being used

properly and is being taken advantage of.

The Amazon Rainforest is vanishing at 3 TIMES the rate it was in 1994.

20% of the Amazon Rainforest is already destroyed.

*2.47 ACRES per second

*150 ACRES per minute

* 214,000 ACRES per day

* 78 MILLION ACRES per year:

* In Brazil- 5.4+ Million Acres per year

*80% of the ancient forests have been destroyed

*only 20% of the ancient forests remain intact

Over 1 million people moved into the forest all these people cleared

parts of the forest to grow crops on since the trees grew so well they

thought it would do the same for the crops. This didn't happen though

the crops drained the ground of its nutrients and the nutrients were

never replaced so in the end the crops didn't grow anymore so the

people just moved on destroying more forest. The forest that was left

behind could never recover and grow again so it will end up like a

desert.

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The roads that got built that went through the rainforest and deep

into it. Most people that lived in Brazil agreed to the roads. The

roads were going to connect all the main cities together and would

make easy access for raw materials.

The main materials that the people want are the most expensive so

these would be teak and mahogany these would most probably be sold to

rich countries. Most of the wood is logged by big multinational

companies.

Mining also is used in the rainforest this is done by massive

international companies iron ore; bauxite, gold, and many other

valuable metals are dug up. Carajas is the biggest mining area in the

forest.

Big companies bought land to raise there cattle on. They use a burning

technique where they just burn the forest down this was a much faster

way of doing things. This also had the same effects as growing crops