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Deforestation In The Amazon

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Deforestation is the destruction of native forests around the world. It is happening on most continents but is very bad in the Amazon region of South America. Farmers and foresters are cutting down the trees because most furniture is made from wood and that wood comes from these trees. Kapok is a common type of amazon rainforest tree that produces a very popular wood for making carvings, coffins and dugout canoes. The wood is popular with the native peoples because it is very easy to shape and stain. Farmers and cattle ranchers are responsible for cutting down most of the Amazon rainforest. They make a lot of money from cutting down the forest and selling the timber and then turning the land into cattle farms. This effects everyone on the …show more content…

They feel that the economic benefits outweigh the legal risks. "The ones who follow the rules like me are considered idiots. The ones who break the rules make the money," said an Amazonian landowner, Milton Luiz Molfensteiner. Many farmers believe that they have the right to use the land from their forefathers in any way they want. Their view is that clearing the land for farms is the way to support their families and community. Farmers feels that they cannot be held responsible for global warning when millions of other people around the world are burning fossil fuels every …show more content…

The weakness of imposing bans and restriction is that the government must have a very large and powerful organisation to enforce the restrictions. This is very difficult to achieve because it is very expensive and takes a long time to achieve.

Use a mixture of punishments and incentives. The government can ban farmers in the worst part of deforestation from getting low interest loans for their business and this will slow down their ability to clear the forest and start new farms. The government can also made it compulsory for land owners to report their properties boundaries to environmental regulators. This will enable to government to understand who is responsible for forest clearing and understand the overall size of the problem.

The strengths of this is approach is that it is relatively easy to manage and it does not cost a lot of money.
The weakness of this is that the farmers can’t earn as much money because they can’t get cheap

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