Defoversity : The Importance Of Diversity In South America

Deforestation presents in an abundance of ways, including fires, clear-cutting for agriculture, ranching and development, unsustainable logging for timber, and degradation due to climate change. The foremost reason of deforestation in Latin America is the requirement for food, fuel, shelter, and foreign exchange. Year on year, a space of tropical forest the size of Great Britain is "converted" from an area equal to the size of Europe. Ever since 1950, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), half of the world 's forests have disappeared. “Latin America has lost 37 percent of its tropical forests,” says the FAO. As more and more of Latin American forest are degraded, more and more detrimental effects are being seen. Deforestation is changing a number of resources for tribal groups, altering their way of life, temperatures are increasing at a dangerous rate because of a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, habitats and species such as plants and wildlife are being annexed due to the destructive effects of deforestation. Deforestation is inarguably helpful to supplying money to countries that sell the products from the forest, but huge wealth being generated from the forests comes with large-scale environmental and social costs. The local residences are not benefitting and the funds are being siphoned out of the region.

The progress of Latin America economically has made differences for the better or worse for several countries. In Central and South America, there are resources, industries, and agriculture that has been made gradually through the years. However, before the economic Latin America many know today, other civilizations lived first. In Central America, the Maya, Aztec, and Olmec lived there. (Document 1) The Mayans were known to live in the Yucatan Peninsula, while the Aztec lived in Tenochtitlan, and the Olmec in present day Veracruz and Tabasco. (Document 1) In South America, lived the Inca. The Inca lived in Peru, Chile. (Document 1) Aside from earlier civilizations, there are also four zones of climate. (Document 3) These types of climates are Tierra Helada (Frozen Land), Tierra Fria (Cold Land), Tierra Templada (Temperate Land), Tierra Caliente (Hot Land). All of these have different livestock and crops depending on the climate.

However, due to more people searching for plots there is greater pressure on the amount of available land. The logging industry is responsible for a relatively small level of deforestation, accounting for 3% in Brazil. Consequently, all these activity contribute together to the rapid loss of what is left of the rainforest and a large proportion of the world’s biodiversity. All of the resources that the rainforest provides could be lost in the next 40 years.

Deforestation is defined as: “the clearing of virgin forests, or intentional destruction or removal of trees and other vegetation for agricultural, commercial, housing, or firewood use without replanting and without allowing time for the forest to regenerate itself” (SCRIBD). Deforestation has been a problem in Latin America since the early 1900s and the severity of the dilemma is increasing rapidly. Deforestation not only has consequences for the environment, but also, the indigenous people and the national economy. The logging industry in Latin America is often exploited by multinational companies that are not properly regulated. The land that has provided a home and cultivated indigenous development for centuries is being dissipated rapidly. Due to an exponentially growing global population, there is an increased demand for low priced goods--like timber, crops, and meat. Many Latin American countries value revenue from selling these goods over the health of their local ecosystems. The crisis of deforestation and habitat loss is shifting from a local to global problem. As deforestation continues, global warming escalates worldwide, impacting every country and person. About 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from tropical deforestation, which is more than from all the world’s cars, trucks and buses combined (Schwartzman). Puerto Rico and Brazil provide contrasting examples of the impact of deforestation. Puerto Rico had an economic and environmental shift

Shane Lane, talks about harmonizing and dishamornizing human and natural environments. Here the focus is on the basic issues concerning the environment, Stea and Lane point out that urbanization and deforestation are some of the key factors causing the environmental issues. The authors make mention that there are recent improvements Latin America to preserve the environment. These preservation programs include inventive use of alternative energy sources, forest preservation, and creating ways in which to engage the private sector. However, most of these efforts are remedial instead of preventative, this is in part because identification and prioritization of environmental issues varies from country to country in Latin

People from Haiti, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic and Ecuador are part of the same territory and despite of that each country has different cultures and lifestyles that enriches and form part of the Latin America history in which Chilean people are involved too.

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 culture of South America would have resembled the Incans culture without sacrifice of humans as science is discovered and people are influenced that it is wrong. With the same foods a modern touch as eventually some Europeans do live in south America as the ancestor allowed them for living .Also the language would not be Spanish yet the language the Indian tribe is spoken. The religion of South America would have been similar to the religion of the Indian tribes but some might have converted to Catholicism as eventually Europeans wanted to live in South America. Also the population of the Incans would not have been decreased. Since now most of South America people were forced to dropped their religions and become Christians and most of the population in south America is

At the age of seven, I was enrolled in public schooling in Mexico. Being a Mexican American student in a public Mexican institution, but most importantly, being a woman, opened my eyes to the cross cultural disparities faced by women in underdeveloped communities as well as the similarities carried on through cultural ideologies.

Latin America spreads across the entirety of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Latin America contains over 25 countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, and many more. The Latin American region’s primary languages are those of romance, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and a small amount of French. The America’s

Together, coffee and cattle account for most of the deforestation of the Atlantic Forest and Amazon. Deforestation for agriculture and cattle, urbanization, human population growth, have resulted

This policy memo addresses the development and expansion of the cattle ranching industry in Brazil, which has contributed to the mass deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon in the last 40 years. It exposes the regional and global consequences to deforestation and provides strategies for the Brazilian government to sustainably manage cattle ranching industries while protecting the future of the Amazon. The rainforest ecosystem is an immense reserve of natural recourses that is far more valuable than the beef produced on Brazilian cattle ranches. Not only does the rainforest create habitat for up to 65% of the world’s biodiversity, but when harvested sustainably, it provides humans with an abundance of spices, foods, oils, medicines

South America is a continent located in the western hemisphere. The population of South America is 422.5 million. There are 12 countries in South America Bolivia, Paraguay,Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Ecuador. The largest country in South America is Brazil. South America has a history that has a variety of human cultures and forms of civilization.

Nowadays, worldwide economy has behaved in a very explosive and surprising manner. Specially in developing countries, the local economy has faced a great challenge for the people towards globalization. In South America, Peru is a traditional country trying to fit its customs and techniques in agriculture with the fixed and aggressive markets of the world. According to Javier Escobal and Denice Cavero (2014), Peruvian national statistics indicate that the country has experienced persistent economic expansion recently (annual growth averaging over 5% during the last 15 years). However, poverty has not been reduced, specially in rural areas, where it affects two of every three inhabitants. Commonly, people within this marginal regions, have practiced agriculture as a profession and as a tradition since ages.

The rate of deforestation is increasing and the tropical forests are falling at approximately 140,000 acres per day (Miller & Tangley 1991: xvi). The forests are crucial to the environment. They are important in minimizing erosion, providing a stable habitat for many animals, and helping to keep the environment clean. Deforestation has devastating effects, not only on the biological dependents within the depleted forests, but also on the surrounding human-populated communities.