Deforestation In Brazil

They owned and operated the land, therefore they had right to be on it. Columbus had no right to barge in, take over their village and destroy all that they knew including them. This may be true, but accordng to Henry Noble Sherwood in Columbus and the Indians:

Brazil was colonized in 1500 where among other adventurers, Portuguese Pedro Alvares Cabral landed with his fleet in Porto Seguro. The colonizers met Tupinamba Indians, one of the many native groups in the continent. The main goal of the Portuguese was to monopolize the trade of pau-brasil, which is the red wood made for making dye and gave the country its name. The other goal was establishing settlements in the country. The Portuguese first collaborated in harvesting the trees but later tried to enslave the natives, and many fled the country or died because of exploitation and disease. Over three million people fled after Cabral’s arrival and then the Portuguese turned to Indian and African slaves.

Now, when it came to ownership of the land the Native Americans were known for hunting so, they needed their hunting land as well as land to grow crops. They were open for sharing land, “The South’s native people had well-defined hunting territories, fishing grounds, and agricultural plots which they vigorously defended against encroachment. However, they did not regard land as property that could be transferred in perpetuity to another individual or group”. However, the Europeans did not think the land should be shared. So, when they came over they took the land away from the

Without the land , there will be no way for them to feed their families. In the article Interest Groups, “ settlers argue that there is no land for them in other parts of Brazil. They say they must look to the rainforest for land to feed their families.” This explains how The settlers argue for the land because their children need food to eat so they will not be hungry at night. Without the land they can’t grow their food and there will be on the way for them to feed their families. This evidence supports my sub-claim because it states that the government was trying to give the poor free land. Brazilian government began encouraging poor to move to the

During the time period of late 1800s and early 1900s the group of the colonizers were gaining many benefits. They were able to gain land, labor, and resources. According to O.P. Austin in (Doc 2) the colonizers were able to control garden spots in the tropics, this gains a huge agricultural benefit for the colonizers. The colonizers were also able to carve the land the claimed into what they felt was beneficial for themselves. For example, it stated that they were able to change an economy that helped benefit themselves but themselves only (Doc 5). In (Doc 3) it shows that the colonizers were able to gain labor from the

Differences in government, religion, and population set the settlements of the two countries apart, and their shared desire for wealth and eventual independence connected them. When colonizing the New World, Spanish monarchs held a primary goal of conquest. Subsequently, there was no self-government in the Spanish colonies. Conquistadors pillaged Native American land in the name of their mother country. Settlers obeyed the king’s laws, and had little freedom to do as they chose.

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

The Europeans said they founded the land first and had the right to claim it. The distinction of views in the means of the open land was the usage. The Europeans viewed the land as wilderness ready to be tamed, while Americans viewed the land as opportunities. The very problem with the Europeans plans of claiming the land was that the land had already been claimed itself. Upon the very land, lived American Indians who had built their own civilization including farming, hunting, and raising their very own families.

Native Americans should have their land is because, they have their ancestors souls are there.. Also they remember their history on the land.The best way for the United States for make up for injustices is to return land to Native American

When the Europeans first arrived in Latin America, they didn’t realize the immensity of their actions. As history has proven, the Europeans have imposed many things on the Latin American territory have had a long, devastating effect on the indigenous people. In the centuries after 1492, Europeans would control much of South America and impose a foreign culture upon the already established civilizations that existed before their arrival. These imposed ideas left the continent weak and resulted in the loss of culture, the dependence on European countries, and a long standing ethnic tension between natives and settlers which is evident even to this day. The indigenous people of South America, which

Long before white settlers arrived in America, the entire American land was primarily considered a land of the natives. In particular, the Aboriginals viewed their communally owned land as a gift from their creator, who offered it to His people for survival. Their existence and sustenance of their livestock and food crops was entirely attributed to this gift from their creator. As such, the natives felt attached to the land and had to protect it from outsiders (Nash, 2006).

In the Spanish, French, and European colonization of North and South America, it either benefited or ravaged tribal societies and their peoples. Through the 16th-19th centuries, the Native Americans populations declined in the following ways: epidemic diseases brought from Europe; violence and warfare. During the prospect of exploration, Thomas Jefferson viewed American Indians as people with the possibly of “Enlightenment” and from a political standpoint either they were enemies of war or allies in peace. While the United States had set a precedent to explore new lands in its short history, native peoples’ who had inherited lands through generations of migration, tribe exploration, and hunting and gathering were now in jeopardy forcefully or ceding their lands through new American policies. As stated by Thomas Jefferson, “The Indian tribes residing within the limits of the United States, have, for a considerable time, been growing more and more uneasy at the constant diminution of the territory they occupy, although effected by their own voluntary sales” [Present in the Past, 79].

At some point or another everyone was affected by the decisions of others. The decision may have been made on accident or on purpose, but it still happened and it can’t be taken back. Colonization and exploration contain a few of the things that were done on purpose and effected more people than anyone realized. Colonization impacted the people that’s land was being taken more than it impacted the people doing it. The people colonizing and exploring different lands seemed to have the power in the situation causing the “land owners” to give them what they wanted.

Nowadays deforestation is the one of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the world. Deforestation is cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there might be serious impacts in future. For instance, extinction of endemic species of animals and plants which will be

The colonial framework fosters understanding land that is not actively managed and economically productive as not [yet] converted.