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Amazon Deforestation

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Brazil Amazon rainforest is mostly threatened by deforestation and infrastructure. “More than half of the earth’s rainforests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.” (National Geographic, N.D). Deforestation is different from country to another, where it depends on how much it is useful for them. Many areas of the Amazon land is being used illegally for industrial work. Logging are cutting down trees for wood use to make paper, furniture and other items. As well as burning the forest to make an extra space for planting crops, and building roads. Roads serve easy access in the heart of the Amazon. Species are dying and losing their habitats, which make them extinct. Building mines and oil wells
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Deforestation has led to another of many reasons of global warming and low rainfall, which can affect crops for farmers. How it affects resources, services and finance and etc- In resources, deforestation provides a lot of different type of oil, like palm oil and lumber, cattle ranching, farming, buildings, paper, homes, furniture and urbanization. Even though it decreases a natural resources, many different types of other resources are created as a result. Since it provides people with enterprise, it can benefit the distribution of trade with other countries, and increase job opportunities.

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Native Amazonians have been around longer than writing, they use the forest to survive (food, shelter, etc.) and I like to argue that, yes they are trying to save their forest but they also contribute to deforestation. If we want these people to continue living in their traditional manner in the rainforest and for us not to lose what used to be 14% of our earth’s land surface, we as people need to act and find other ways of surviving without rapid deforestation. To conclude, we know people aren’t doing much to replant trees at the same or faster rate than the deforestation process, based on the rate at which the rain forest has been deforested in the past 55 years, we know we’ve lost about 8% already and so we know we’re going to lose the forest within Forty Years, (no one expected that when they

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The Native Amazonians hunt, fish, and grow crops on small plots. When a field is no longer fertile, they clear a new one and leave the old one to be covered by the forest. They live there, work there, They do everything

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Have you ever heard that every year the Amazon Rainforest is losing 78 million acres of land every year? Well it’s sadly true, the reason it’s happening is because of all the jobs in Brazil. That’s what’s hurting it and destroying the Forest, people are trying to do everything to get back the Amazon Rainforest. In 1960 Brazil was the 11th largest economy in the world, everyone in a very populated country can’t be rich.

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When this happens it causes adverse effects on the environment. It can be done in a variety of ways from cutting to burning. Either way mass deforestation is bad and needs to stop before it is too late. One culprit of our deforestation is

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However, despite rapid deforestation there have been long drawn efforts made by the domestic and global actors for forest conservation and curbing practices of deforestation. This has led to a tussle between pro-development and pro-environment policy networks trying to influence policies which directly affect the Amazon Rainforest and its inhabitants. The paper will also analyze 4 stages in the history of Brazil from 1960s to now in light of such policy networks. Causes of Deforestation (1) Rapid Population Growth Studies show Amazonian populations have high intrinsic growth rates, which has led to an increase in the population

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Also, what we could do to this issue. Disturbances affecting the Amazon rainforest The rainforest is namely home for the world’s biodiversity. A disturbance affecting the Amazon rainforest today, is the deforestation occurring. It is taking place so rapidly due to reasons like: forest conversion for cattle ranching, farming, logging, population pressure, etc.

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Deforestation By the time you have finished reading this article, over 150 acres of rainforest will be burnt. Deforestation is a global issue that destroys the natural world and has clear correlations to global warming. We as the Romantic Party of Australia are highly against deforestation. Under our government, we would make it our mission to prevent deforestation around the world, to preserve the earths natural beauty.

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The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world and it needs to be protected at all costs. The deforestation of the Amazon not only hurts the rainforest itself and all the species in it, it could be harmful to the entire world. The Amazon rainforest is responsible for creating ¼ of the world’s oxygen and is often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth” (Deforestation 178). In addition to providing a significant amount of oxygen, the Amazon rainforest is also home to thousands of species. In fact, one 25-acre patch of the rainforest contains 750 kinds of trees, 1500 kinds of flowering plants, 125 species of mammals, 400 kinds of birds, and countless other unknown species (Deforestation 187).

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Deforestation results in the loss of biodiversity Deforestation is having its most devastating effect on biodiversity in tropical rainforests. The destruction of millions of hectares of forests by human activities means: • The removal of the bases of numerous food webs • The loss of habitats for many species of flora and

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First, deforestation creates space for human expansion. The population of the world is drastically increasing. By 2050, it is expected that there will be “10 billion people,” indicating that the need for space is a necessity if humans are going to keep growing at the rate that they are now ("17 Important Pros and Cons of Deforestation", 2015). The increase of space will not only be used for habitation purposes, but also for commercial establishments, which can improve the economy. Furthermore, trees are used to make valuable material.

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Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and how it affects its species The Amazon rainforest houses at least 146 000 of the world’s known species. Flora and fauna included, this accounts for a staggering tenth of all forms of life currently existing on planet earth. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and spans across 5.5 million square kilometres of the South American continent.

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The rainforests are also home to many endangered animals. The forests in Borneo are greatly endangered, which can have many negative effects on animals and humans alike. One reason

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For example, we need wood to generate paper and we use paper everyday in our lives. Many kinds of furniture like tables, shelves and chairs are made using wood. Agriculture was labeled as the number one culprit of deforestation. Land is cleared to grow crops.

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Deforestation of the Amazon accounted for 1.5 % of the increase in carbon dioxide levels since the mid 19th century. Also, sea levels rise, and polar ice caps melt, causing habitat loss and catastrophic calamities in the

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