Deforestation is the process of cutting down and destroying trees in a habitat/ecosystem for human advantage, usually profit. Of all the areas on Earth being deforested, the Amazon Rainforest is the largest target. Over 750,000 square kilometers of The Amazon Rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and French Guiana. 79% of deforestation of the Amazon takes place in Brazil. Rainforests are cut down for a variety of reasons, mostly for agriculture and profit. The amazon is destroyed for a need for materials, cattle ranching, colonization, mineral mining, and soy farming. By 2000, the deforestation in Brazil skyrocketed and grew out of hand my 2004. Laws were made and deforestation in Brazil dropped by 80% after the laws were enforced. The Amazon Rainforest is one of the largest rainforests in the world, with its massive vegetation count and unspeakably large biodiversity. The Amazon holds many importances and it’s best that the rainforest stays alive. Within the plants, two medicines can be found in the Amazon; Quinine, found on a Cinchona Tree. When the dried bark is consumed, it can kill parasites, calm spasms, and can even treat malaria. Novacaine, another medicine, can be found in the Amazon. Found in the coca plant, it can treat small pains like a local anaesthetic.
The Amazon is also often referred to as “The Lungs of The Earth” due to its massive oxygen production. The Amazon’s vegetation produces 20% of all of
• This book is about finding medicinal plants in the Amazon Rainforest to cure common diseases. • Sometimes, Western medicines cannot cure the common diseases. • This book was written by Mark Plotkin and it was published in 1993. • Mark Plotkin travels to different parts of the rainforest and collect several medicinal plants for a research experiment. •
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
(Document 3) In Brazil, many people are moving into the Amazon. Brazil does not have the resources to supply the entire population because of urbanization. The people that moved to the Amazon started cutting down trees, which led to the deforestation of the Amazon. Animals are not only the ones living in the forest, but humans live there too.
Deforestation is still an unbeleafable issue even to this day. With our trees being cut down to make supplies and furniture, we struggle with keeping our ratio of trees being destroyed and trees being planted equal. It seems like that was also the case in the past. There was a significant amount of trees being cut down in 1920, the land looking much more barren than it did in 1650 (Document A, map). These trees, some of them taking more than three thousand years to rise tall, are being cut down.
Michael Boydstun ENVS 101-1998 Environmental Impact of deforestation In the Pacific Northwest The first people to explore the wilderness in what is now Oregon and Washington documented beautiful forests of mesmerizingly large trees as far as the eye can see. The explorer’s initial reports brought in people who came to make a profit off the forest and the vast amounts of lumber it could provide. Lumber mills were built before the area was even added to the union. The environmental footprint started out small, but the lack of regulation, lack of enforcement of the existing regulations, and an increase in technology quickly created a large environmental battle over the whole region.
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
Subject- Deforestation affects majority of the population, including people and animals, across the nation and in my community. Situation or Problem- Deforestation is the action of eliminating trees, in forests, by cutting them down. The objective of deforestation is to create more land for construction and land establishments with the idea of not restoring thee trees back or replacing them. How it affects my community- Deforestation can disrupt the homes of many animals, including birds and fish.
“Method of getting quinine from cinchona tree bark (1820). Treatment for malaria.” Malaria impacted Africa so much to
They get many benefits from the forest like fresh soil for crops lots of animals in the forest to hunt. They benefit the world by be a historical part of it that has lived on for thousands of years and it also gives us another reason why not to take the forest down for wood products made for people 's wants not their needs. We should support the amazonians and how they use the rainforest because they have been there longer than us and survived without taking down any trees. They use straw in broken tree branches for their homes. Unlike the loggers trying to destroy the forest for money and homes for people.
Kofi Annan, once the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, stated, “If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication” (Kofi Annan). Persistently, the world is reminded of the advantages of globalization and how history could have been shaped without its existence. In spite of the declarations that defend the international movement enhancing the ideology of an interconnected planet, the downsides of globalization cannot be ignored.
The Brazilian Amazon is home to 40% of the world’s tropical rainforest. Incidentally, it also has the world’s fastest rate of deforestation. Tropical Rainforests around the world are lost at the rate of one acre per second with the average rate of Brazilian Amazon being such that 2 million hectares of forest land are cleared every year. There are multiple causes for this extensive rate of deforestation and this paper will address four such causes namely (1) rapid population growth, (2) industrial logging and mining, (3) changing spatial patterns of deforestation, and (4) wildfires. Moreover, there are several Brazilian state policies that encourage deforestation practices of which this paper will look at five key aspects – (1) taxes on agricultural income, (2) rules of land allocation, (3) land taxes, and (4) tax credit schemes and subsidized credits.
Introduction: Description: Deforestation is defined as the permanent destruction of forests in order to make land available for other uses. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 18 million acres of forest are lost each year. This equals to approximately 36 football fields of forest being cleared each minute. Though deforestation occurs all over the world, it’s the tropical forests which are being particularly targeted. Due to this countries such as Indonesia, Brazil, the Democratic republic of Congo and Thailand have a very
They contain many unique species which provide food, medicine and other biological products. Plants from tropical rainforests already provide about one-quarter of today’s pharmaceutical products. According to the National Cancer Institute, 70% of the plants useful in the treatment of cancer can only be found in the tropical rainforests. 3. Rainforests regulate the world’s climate by influencing wind,
The Amazon Rainforest is largest rainforest in the world that is developed in the tropical area of the Amazon River. Due to its enormous size, this moist broadleaf forest covers seven million square kilometers of forest that is present mostly in Brazil, and Peru, also running through minor land coverage in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. It is magnificent to think that it present over the remaining rainforest on earth and support more than 2.7 millions of different plants animals and insects. With an existent of more than 55 million years, the forest had offered us human almost everything form shelter food water and even resource that are still crucial to our present day lives. But, unlike us human,
When animals lose their habitat (Anadiplosis), they are not accustomed to their new surroundings and could potentially go extinct. Species depend on forests to survive and when the forests are cut down, the animals have nothing left. Forests are heavily depended on for resources and ways of life. The Pachamama Alliance Organization claims that, “the tropical rainforests of South America are responsible for 20% of earth’s oxygen.” This proves the earth relies greatly on forests and may suffer consequences because of the speedy rate trees are being cut