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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.

Indigenous rights in Brazil have been very vague throughout the years and were difficult to obtain since many indigenous tribes were seen as an inferior class. There are around 900,000 indigenous people with a total of 240 tribes in Brazil in contrast to the 11 million indigenous people that lived there before the European colonist arrived. It was predicted that 90% died in the first years from diseases that they were not exposed to, such as the flu and smallpox, and the rest who survived the diseases were enslaved. Brazil has one third of the world’s rainforest and half of the amazon forest, but with the expansion of neoliberal policies deforestation has become a serious problem. According to Brazilian authorities, the rubber and cattle industries are responsible for 80% of the deforestation (COHA). This has evidently affected many indigenous communities that lived in the Amazon forest, displacing them from their lands and exploiting them for hard labor. By the 1950s, many predicted that the indigenous population in Brazil would disappear, but they have been able to recover by becoming active in the movement against neoliberal policies and their rights as human.

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

Tropical rainforests have long been home to indigenous peoples who have shaped civilizations and cultures based on the environment in which they live. Great civilizations like the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs developed complex societies and made great contributions to science. Living from nature and lacking the technology to dominate their environment, native peoples have learned to watch their surroundings and understand the intricacies of the rainforest. Over generations these people have learned the importance of living within their environment and have come to rely on the countless renewable benefits that forests can provide.

The Amazon Rainforest is a mighty jungle filled with an array of exotic species of wood, like mahogany, and rich natural resources such as gold, copper, tin, and nickel. Naturally, people want to make a profit, but the rainforest’s trees stand in the way. Logging is the main source of deforestation. Every year, millions of trees are cut down to be made into timber. Many times, these logging operations are illegal. These operations will keep exploiting the Amazon for its exotic timber, not caring that many of these species of plants are either rare, or help support rare species and ecosystems. Mining also creates deforestation, but not as severely as logging. Trees are cut down to make way for mining operations that dig for non renewable resources like copper and gold. Trees are also used as charcoal to help produce pig iron. A third cause of deforestation is agriculture. Cattle ranches and soy plantations are created where the Amazon Rainforest once stood. As people expand their farms, they must cut down the areas they now use for farming. Trees are also cut to make space for animal pens. Governments also contribute to the deforestation problem by building roads and creating infrastructure. Although these roads help with communication and navigation, they cut through the rainforest, and often help illegal loggers create new roads from their operations in the jungle to these roads that connect with civilization. All of these factors have helped cut down the Amazon Rainforest. In the past

The Amazon is the biggest rainforest we have and the biggest supporter of biodiversity. The Amazon is home to over half the world's plants and animals. This is such a big thing and careless people just exploit it for its resources. Many animals and plants

Although dams can have negative outcomes, they are not the only projects with destructive effects. Roads and highways also produce unintentional harm. In the 1970s, when Amazonian deforestation first began, the Brazilian government believed it should take advantage of the rainforest. To allow easier access into the rainforest, the government built the Trans-Amazonian Highway (“Tropical”). This accessibility did not just allow easy entry for the official loggers, the highway also created the opportunity for illegal loggers to enter. Now that Brazil’s economy has deteriorated, in order to gain profits again, their government and independent companies are cutting trees down at a faster pace (Phillips, “Brazil’s New”). Not only are legal loggers

the native amazonians have a long history in the rain forest they have lived in the rain forest about 12,000 years.There were about 1- million natives live there till the population went down by the diseases that were caused now its have been rounded

According to Andersen, other countries argue that the understandings of the Amazon rainforest and its functions are still not 100% determined accurately in the global ecosystem and that too much deforestation can cause huge damages to the global life support system. They also argue that the rainforests are much more valuable than the alternative land uses. Other countries also argue that Brazil can get only short-term rather than long-term effects from deforestation which is not worth it (Andersen, 2002). In general, many people are concerned with the overall loss of biodiversity of species due to the Amazon deforestation, as well as the effect of deforestation on overall global warming. Governments usually do not think about the ecosystem and the climate, first they think about the economy. I believe that not only the Brazilian government, but also governments from all countries should pay more attention to improving the ecosystems in their countries by working on the sustainability of their

Canoeing through the Amazon rainforest is a serene experience that invokes the beauty of nature and wonder of the unknown. The flourishing lush evergreen trees surround the calm winding river, and a plethora of rare species that the imagination could only graze the surface of. The ability to embrace a mere glance of the sheer beauty of the “8.24 million square kilometer rainforest” was once an adorn lifetime experience to become unified with the world around us (“The Amazon Rainforest”). Evidently, the indigenous tribes in the Amazon still understand the concept of living in congruence with nature; nevertheless, in the 1970s the Amazon began being demolished for resources and its beauty is slowly deteriorating as well.

Environmental groups support the native amazonians and would like to help them keep their land. Here are some ways to stop deforestation. We can try to make corporations help, they have the power to destroy the rainforest but they also have the power to protect it. There are many things companies can do to stop deforestation or at least bring it down to a much smaller amount than it currently is at. We can help by supporting and buying products using recycled wood. If we support corporations helping the problem of deforestation then other companies will join in and also start to do things to stop the deforestation happening in the amazon rainforest. The government has a super important role in the stopping of deforestation and needs to do its part if we ever want to stop the shrinking of the amazon. In the United States we have laws and treaties to stop illegal wood from getting into our markets and we need to get these kind of things

The largest rainforest in the world is being deforested with little opposition. It is a rainforest that humans have been benefiting from for hundreds of years. Notably, this rainforest is the Amazon, and many people ignore the destruction happening in there and do not realize that thousands of acres of land have been deforested. On the other hand, they are clearing these areas to gain significant resources such as diamonds, gold, lumber and medicinal plants. For these reasons, a controversy over the deforestation in the Amazon has arisen. Although the deforestation has provided valuable natural resources businesses in the forested regions, the removal of the Amazon rainforest is detrimental to its biodiversity because it creates a dysfunctional habitat.

In recent years one of the greatest dangers the world overall countenances is the damage of our surroundings. The demolition of the Brazilian rainforest is presumably the most imperative issue that is to be contemplated on the grounds that it is the reason for other major environmental issues we are confronting, for example, an unnatural weather change, the exhaustion of our ozone layer, and perceptible atmosphere changes all over the world. Brazil's deforestation issue has transformed into earth's deforestation issue.

In 1985, the World Bank provided loan for the Polonoroeste project. The project was to pave 1,500 km road and resettle migrants in the Brazilian North West. This project initially aimed at creating a sustainable life for the indigenous community who live in and around the Amazon rain forest in friendly manner. In addition to that there was a planned resettlement program for about 5000 households to live nearby the forest. However, this project a rise a sharp citizen from local as well as international community. “The loan was for what has become perhaps the most notorious multilaterally financed development project ever” Stephen (1986,P.1).

One of the many things it talks about in this article is that there's indigenous people living in Brazil's very big Amazon river. There are approximately 450,000 people living in the Amazon. The people who are currently living in the Amazon have been living there for centuries and it's always been the same but recently there's an effort to build dozens of humongous hydroelectric dams Which is very bad for the people who live in the Amazon. This will threaten to end their way of life forever. In the result of this, the indigenous tribes have protested against the people who are doing all of this.