Amazon Rainforestation

Deforestation poses an alarming threat to Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and it has been a serious concern for over 40 years. For thousands of years, the abundant, valuable resources in the Amazon were familiar only to the indigenous people of the region. In the 1500’s, before European colonization of Brazil, there were an estimated six to nine million individuals part of different cultures that made up a rich Amazonian society (“History”). Surrounded by the luxuriant rainforest and its natural resources, these indigenous tribes were able to thrive by utilizing the resources without destroying their habitat. After European emigration, the government of Brazil exploited the value of the Amazon’s resources in the twentieth century. In the 1970’s, the Brazilian government discovered the “untapped source of boundless potential” hiding in the Amazon and began using incentives to persuade settlers to develop its resources (Casey). Once economists realized the importance of the resources found within the rainforest, European pioneers set out to transform the Amazon into their home. By endorsing colonization, the government could not only boost the country’s economy, but also gain control over Brazil’s vast territory. The government supported migration to the rainforest and campaigned for the construction of infrastructure (“History”). In concurrence, the development of roads such as the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a 2,000 mile road built in 1972, granted people and machinery entrance to

As parts to of the world still continue to commit acts of deforestation in the rainforest areas, at the same time, the climate on earth also becomes affected by these actions, too. The trees in the rainforest are essential to the water cycle (Szalay). The water cycle is the movement of water on the earth (“Summary of the Water Cycle”). The trees in the water cycle act in the process of evapotranspiration. The word evapotranspiration is evaporation and transpiration together (Briney). Evaporation is when water converts from liquid into a gas or vapor (Briney). Transpiration, however, is when a plant or tree absorbs the water from their roots and is evaporated back into the atmosphere through its leaves, stems, or flowers (Briney). The water evaporated from the trees and plants contribute to the rainfall in the forest (Briney). In the article The Effects of Deforestation in Amazonia, author Harald Sioli states, “With the reduction of rainwater re-evaporating from the original forest, the rate of its recycling will also diminish” (200). If the process of evapotranspiration decreases due to deforestation, the amount of rainfall will also decrease. The rainforests like the Amazon will change in climate and become dry and could possibly cause more forest fires due to the reduction of precipitation in the rainforest (Shukla, Nobre, & Sellers).

“Maintaining biodiversity at its present level is impossible if people are going to achieve a reasonable standard of living in the near future” - Discuss this with reference to a tropical biome you have studied (40 marks) Biodiversity means the variety of life forms/organisms in an ecosystem, biome or entire planet. Globally,

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing high rate of deforestation along with the consequences. In fact, the rate of deforestation has increased by 29% from 2015. The deforestation is done illegally and the Brazilian government has made efforts to minimize the deforestation. An area the size of California has been cleared in the past half century and the government The Amazon Rain forest is responsible for eliminating around 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide. This yearly absorption helps eliminate greenhouse gases and when it is not absorbed it adds to climate change.

Introduction Deforestation is an environmental problem everybody gets affected by; but not equally. Cutting down trees and degrading the soil of an eco-system can change it for the worse and leave it unrecoverable. The Amazon Rainforest is a large and very biodiverse ecosystem that stretches across 5,500,000 kilometers. The Amazon Rainforest is not a stranger to deforestation since the late 1960’s. Deforestation in the amazon forest will cripple all organisms that rely heavily on the forest to provide for a sustainable life, while others not directly impacted may benefit from it. Other people may benefit from the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest from the profit that comes with the use of land for agriculture/livestock. However, the tribes, plants, and animals, that live in the Amazon Rainforest suffer from the loss of Biodiversity, the habitat and resources that are being taken away from clearing forests, and the reduced air quality along with the increased carbon emissions. Deforestation is a process of demolition towards the ecosystem.

Two other huge natural issues is the species that live in Brazil and the waste that they have. Brazil is home to more than 6% of the world's imperiled species. As per an animal groups appraisal led by the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, 97 species have been distinguished in Brazil with helpless, lower danger/close debilitated, imperiled, or discriminatingly jeopardized standing. In 2009, 769 imperiled species were recognized in Brazil making it home to the eighth biggest number of jeopardized species on the planet Much of this increment in Brazil, and additionally the nations it goes before, is brought on by fast deforestation and industrialization. Changing natural elements are to a great extent in charge of the increment in the quantity of jeopardized species. Considering the expansive impacts that deforestation and industrialization have had, it turns out to be clear that by expanding regulation and strategy these impeding impacts can be

The people can cut down trees for resources, and it could do damage Marcio Astrini, a coordinator from the Amazon campaign, a convention that makes donations to save the rainforest, says, “You can’t argue with numbers, this is not alarmist, it’s a real and measured inversion of what had been a positive trend” (Newstrack). Marcio is one of the people who thinks the Rainforest is important to the people in South America and North America. Scientists have come up with different solutions to help the rainforest, but also for people to get their resources. Governments of Brazil make up laws to save their rainforest, so they try to add nature reserves or place a law that farmers and lumberjacks to chop down trees from a different forest. This effort should continue because it could help the Amazon Rainforest to continue to grow new trees. This could allow the rainforest to grow larger than before. The Rainforest is the biggest out of all of the forests out there, the Brazilian governments are struggling with what laws would be effective to pass on. Their congress established regulations “limiting forest burnings, logging, and large landholdings” (Johnson

Nick Dugo Mr. Church and Mr. Haldeman World Studies 3/4 23 May 2016 Deforestation of the Amazon: Commercial Cutting 2.4 acres per second- two football fields of rainforest disappear every second (World History 1). Deforestation, or the clearing of trees and plants on a massive scale, has been happening since Portugal first colonized the region known as the Amazon Rainforest, which is in Brazil. As development and population have increased, relief from overpopulation has been found in rainforest land. Currently, use of the land is a result of industrial use, poverty and agricultural plantations. The excessive clearing of rainforest demonstrates the devastating destruction that is possible, from killing animal species to eliminating water

III. Environmental Issues Deforestation. Deforestation is one of the most critical problems in Brazil. Destroying natural habitat is a direct threat to biodiversity (Wilson et al., 2015). Historically, deforestation rates have been high in Brazil fluctuating between 25,000 to 50,000 kilometers squared per year. If deforestation were to continue at the historical rates, then most of the Amazon would disappear within 50 to 100 years (Shukla, 1990). While contemporary deforestation rates are not so severe, they are still high and have recently begun to increase. In 2009, Brazilian deforestation was estimated at 7,008 kilometers squared (May et al., 2011). After a slight decrease in the deforestation rate, with a valley in 2012 at 4,571 kilometers

The largest rainforest in the world, that humans have been benefiting from for hundreds of years is being deforested without opposition. Notably, this rainforest is the Amazon, and many people neglect the destruction happening in the rainforest and do not realize that thousands of acres of land have been deforested. Although plants in the Amazon have been useful for medical applications, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is detrimental to it’s biotic species because it creates disorder in the habitat.

Research Essay: Rainforest Deforestation Rainforests are vital for countless reasons; for example they produce the essential oxygen that all species need to survive. However, despite their significant importance, rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Rinkesh states, “according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, an estimated 18 million acres of forest are lost each year” (Rinkesh). The rapid loss of rainforests is due to deforestation, “the clearing, destroying, or otherwise removal of trees through deliberate, natural or accidental means” ("Effects of Deforestation"). While there are many valid reasons for deforestation, it’s important to consider the destructive consequences if the rapid rate of deforestation

Most people do not realize that in Brazil there is a lot of deforestation. Brazil’s deforestation started early in their history. People would cut down trees to expand their cattle pastures. This was very common in Brazil. They realized that the amazon forest was dramatically decreasing each year by forty six to fifty eight thousand square miles. They gave people land rights and added protected areas to the forest. As of 2004 forty percent of the amazon has been protected. That gives everyone sixty percent of the amazon forest to cut trees down and

Forest clearing in Brazil has already claimed casualties, but the animals lost to date in the rainforest region are just one-fifth of those that will slowly die out as the full impact of the loss of habitat takes its toll. "For now, the problem is along the arc of deforestation in the south and east where there is a long history of forest loss,” said Dr. Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, “we expect most of the species there to go extinct, and we'll pick up more extinction debt along the big, paved highways which are now cutting into the heart of the

Deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all of the cars and trucks combined. According to the World Carfree Network (WCN), cars and trucks take up about fourteen percent of global carbon emissions combined, while deforestations takes up to more than twenty percent. The reason that burning and cutting down trees is bad for the climate is that trees release the toxic that they’re storing into the atmosphere when they are cut down, therefore, contributing to global warming. According to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), thirty-two million acres of tropical rainforests were cut down between the year 2000 and 2009, yet, the pace of deforestation is still increasing. “Unless we change the present system that rewards forest destruction, forest clearing will put another 200 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere in coming decades [...]” (Environmental Defense Fund). Tropical forests help adjust rainfall and prevent both floods and droughts. Limiting deforestation is not only a beneficial action against global warming, it also can make important benefactions to saving biodiversity and supporting a stable world.

Late last year Brazil became the first developing country to pledge an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for an envisioned global pact against climate change. Although Brazil is the seventh biggest greenhouse gas emitter we intend to cut emission by 37% between 2005 and 2025, to do so we intend to reduce deforestation, which so far has been successful, and boost the share of renewable resources. As a developing nation our goals are ambitious and if not more so that developed countries.