Loggers In The Amazon Rainforests

Amazon RainForest Essay

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt. This quote helps us to look at logging through the perspective of a family, a business, farmers or even individual citizens. By doing that, we can recognize how to them logging an area of land might not be the worst thing if it gives them a better opportunity in life and it is the only opportunity available to them.

The rainforest, a place of great resources, has been inhabited by a group called the loggers. The loggers believe in utilizing all of the forest and what it offers. Found in almost all of the areas of the rainforest are fields that the loggers have employed. Because of what the loggers do in the rainforest, like cutting down trees,

The loggers have been in the rainforest since the 1960s and have ever since taken advantage of its resources. The history of the amazonian loggers are not elaborated on but it can be concluded that their history has been filled with conflicts between other dwelling companies of people in the rainforest. The environmentalists and the loggers are the two main groups that dispute with one another. Environmentalists have stated that preserving the biodiversity of the rainforest in greater than the business loggers have built up. Loggers, on the other hand, have said that the high demand in timber and other woods is great motivation to keep on logging the forest. The history of the loggers and what they did in the forest can be made evident by the observations of the

Loggers argue that what they do for the country including helping agriculture, employment, urbanization, and debt is imperative. Farmers use the deforested area of the rainforest to feed their cattle. The meat produced from the cattle is then sold to other countries. Employment is helped because loggers create jobs for people willing to cut down trees and people also willing to work in processing factories. New housing is also available because of loggers. The clear cut down fields provide living areas for people that cannot fit in other parts of Brazil and have nowhere else to go. The actions of loggers also help to control the debt of Brazil to other countries. By getting money from selling wood, Brazil is able to pay sums of money owed to other countries. Some people argue that loggers are going to fully destroy the forest but I believe the best way to prevent that is to try and limit the unsustainable logging in the forest. The conducts of loggers, although mostly known for destroying the rainforest, has many benefits to the world, Brazil, and its