Deforestation Throughout The World

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

In Middle and South America, it is evident that human interactions affect the physical features. The human interaction that affects Middle and South America is deforestation. In 1970’s a period of deforestation began in Brazil with the construction of the Trans-Amazon Highway; the road allowed migrant farmers to grow crops (Pulsipher & Pulsipher 2012). Deforestation continued throughout Middle and South America. The use lodging of hardwoods, extracting minerals, oil, gas, stones and clearing off land for raising cattle, and growing crops has impacted most of the land in Middle and South America (Pulsipher & Pulsipher 2012). The human interaction of deforestation has led to many environmental issues, changes in physical features. There are loss

The deforestation in the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil harms the environment and everything within it. Up to 30,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next centuries quarter due to deforestation. Oil is the number one leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon to sell to large corporate countries such as the United States of America. At 66 million tons of oil annually, 27 million hectares of land is used for oil plantations today and has a record of 700 land conflicts within the industry in just Indonesia alone. Many companies have tried to move protesters by promising a stop to deforestation, but many have overlooked this and proceeded to destroy the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, now resulting in protesters deaths by Brazilian police. It was recorded that in the past 20 years, 200 protesters have been murdered in a plea against Amazonian deforestation (Greenpeace 2016).

The world has changed a lot these past years. A lot of deforestation has occurred as humans increased their expectations for survival. This brings up a bigger issue as to over using resources and using things that we don’t need and turn them into waste. The key reason to this is to help humans grow and develop more.

During the past 30 years, deforestation in the Amazon has been a huge problem. The Amazon Rainforest is home to an estimated one-third of all known animal species and makes up about half of the world’s rainforests. The reasons for the deforestation is to expand pastures for cattle production, and fields to grow soybeans. ("Brazil Geography-Introduction." N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2016.)

Deforestation is the removal of a forest in which the land is use for non-forest uses. This is a big problem for the planet, and can have an effect on the enivroment. Brazil is an perfect example of what deforestation can effect an area enviorment. In the article "Deforestation Drives Up Brazil's Carbon Emissions" it states how the carbon dioxide level have risen in the country thanks to deforestation. The data the was reveal that the level of the carbon dioxide went up as did the rise in the rate of deforestation. The deforestation was the cause for two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil. The cause of deforestation in Brazil was thank rise in farming an agriculture. Deforestation have been on raise in Brazil in recent shown from August 2014 to July 2015 deforesttion increase by 24%.

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.

Entire ecosystems are filled with unique species, and the frightening reality is deforestation takes the habitat out from underneath its inhabitants (Bradford 2015). Forests have been cleared at a rate so astonishingly fast, that over half of all known forests have been compromised. If this type of behavior continues, the natural world will have to be given a new name, because nothing left will be "natural". Rainforests clearly have an outward benefits, from cleaning the air we breathe, to different diversity among the species who inhabit this Earth. Organismal density around the equator is exceptionally high, yet humans feel the need to clear much of that land for different use. Urbanization and the need for more agricultural space play a critical role in how much land humans clear. What we as a species forget is how all of these trees and biomes impact the world on a grander scale. Water vapor is needed to complete the water cycle, but without trees constantly humidifying the air, the cycle becomes less fluid. Sturdy trees like the ones in much of the rainforest hold the soil and anchor it from eroding. Because deforestation completely removes all the

The Atlantic forest is also highly affected with deforestation, as most of the forest is gone. Little deforestation had occurred in Brazil’s Amazon before the 1970s, after 1970 the rate of deforestation increased significantly and about 12.5 million hectares of Amazonian land was deforested by 1980 (Moran, 1). “According to the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (BNIS), by August 2007, the deforested area in the Brazilian Legal Amazon reached 700 thousand square km, which represent 14% of its geographic area”(Araujo et al). The geographic distribution of deforestation among the Amazon states has been unequal. Through 1988 to 2007, deforestation was concentrated in the northern areas of the state of Mato Grosso and the southern areas of Para and Rondonia. These three states are respectively responsible for 36%, 32% and 14% of total deforestation in the Legal Amazon. Brazil’s Trans-Amazonian Highway is another huge project that has increased the rate of deforestation throughout the Amazon Forest. Many other highways and projects has destroyed a great deal trees in Brazil. Other factors and projects also caused increased forest loss like the hydroelectric projects have flooded vast areas of Amazon rainforests. Especially, the Balbina dam flooded almost 2,400 square kilometers of rainforests whine was

Brazil was noted as having a fast-growing agricultural sector and the concern regarding deforestation has grown. In turn, efforts have been made to protect land by granted protection status to over 500,000 sq. km of the Amazon rainforest. Efforts such as these have been successful in limiting the destruction of deforestation.

They are cutting and the pulverizing the rainforest. “ Satellite data released today by the Brazilian government confirmed a rise in Amazon deforestation over this time last year.Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) says that deforestation during the month of May amounted to 268 square miles, a rise of 144 percent over May 2010. 35 percent of the clearing occurred in Mato Grosso, the state where agricultural expansion is fast-occurring.” One of Brazil’s most valuable property is it a dense covering of rainforests. The greater part of the rainforest zones in Brazil are concentrated inside the Amazon Basin, which is especially sticky, with year-round precipitation, making for the perfect "wilderness" environment. It would be a cause for celebration when the Brazilian government announced last week that the removal of trees in the Amazon forest rates has fallen for the third year in a row. But for a long time, it did not spend on advertising even nominate About complicity happened between a subsidiary of the Brazilian Government agencies themselves with logging companies started these companies are entitled to access to high-value timber areas in the Amazon jungle, which was banned by those companies. It was active in the Greenpeace office in Brazil have shown evidence that incra worked with timber

Brazil is a place that is known for noteworthy excellence and incredible natural assorted qualities. Hence, deforestation in the Amazon is particularly alarming. While ecological misfortunes and debasement of the rainforests have yet to achieve the purpose of breakdown, the proceeding with vanishing of wildlands and loss of its species is dampening.

Deforestation has many effects on the environment. First of all trees make oxygen and oxygen is a necessity for human life Trees exchange carbon dioxide (Green house gas) and turns it into oxygen which again we need to survive, if the carbon dioxide isn't changed fast enough then green house gases build up and the earth heats up carding to the cycle of "Global Warming". Not only that but destroying trees destroys countless ecosystems and organisms that are a part of nature, and changing ecosystems and habitats can affect many animals. Destroying the trees will cause a habitat change that will disrupt the

If you ask a random individual to describe a landscape to you, any landscape that they can imagine from anywhere in the world, the odds are that they will mention an environment with trees. This is almost inevitable as every type of biome harbors some kind of tree, except for one: the arctic. Through new forms of science, researchers were even able to calculate just how many trees were on the earth. According to this recent study “the answer is somewhere around 3.04 trillion. That 's about 400 trees for every person.” (Netburn 1). The fact is that trees are necessary factors in maintaining the balance our planet requires to sustain life for all living things. Without trees, existence is impossible for

in Brazil has been around for centuries and has a very important meaning in the lives of many. Rainforests have decreased in size primarily due to deforestation. “In 2002, the Amazon was approximately 5.4 million square kilometers, which is only 87 percent of the Amazon's original state” (Mongabay 1). Deforestation has a negative effect in Brazil on climate change, animals and their habitats and erosion patterns, which is leading people to campaign for a deforestation free future.