Stewardship In The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest has an issue that needs to be fixed. The problem that the rainforest has is that the groups continue to cut or burn down trees just so they can grow crops. It needs to stop because it’s hurting The Rubber Tappers. They need the trees to do their job and the government isn’t doing enough to help out. The Rubber Tappers have been living in the rainforest for 100’s of years. The Rubber Tappers came in the 1870’s. As you can see in their way of living does no harm to the rainforest. They make their way of living from the rainforest by harvesting sap from the rubber trees. The Rubber Tappers should have control of the Amazon Rainforest and here are some reasons why. For example, The Rubber Tappers use the resource of the Amazon by

Deforestation in the Amazon is driven by demographic, political-economic, and socio-economic forces. Demographic reasons include the increase in population size, change in population densities, and migration of people within the country. Political-economic incentives are the result of policies that promote economic development, and the political climate including corruption and the mismanagement of resources. Political-economic factors also include the property rights and several claims to land titling. In addition to these, the development of public services such as roads, railways, water lines, electrical grids and sanitation require large chunks of forest land to be cleared. Oil exploration and mining are supplementary economic incentives that push policy-makers to allow for the deforestation of the Amazon. Socio-economic factors include overall lack of concern about forest and wildlife conservation, individual household behaviors, and agricultural production.

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.

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.

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

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

This paper explores the causes, effects and possible solutions of the deforestation of the Amazon Forest. It is important to understand why more than 580,000 square kilometers of Amazon forest has been destroyed in Brazil since 1980 (Rhett Butler 2012). The main topics of this paper, in order to fully explore the issue at hand, will include:

Traveling deep into the Amazon rainforest, Napoleon Chagnon, lived amongst the Yanomamӧ tribes that occupied the land on the border of Brazil and Venezuela. In doing so he was able to write an ethnography about his observations and interpretations of the culture and human behaviors of the Yanomamӧ people. From his studies, Chagnon found that the Yanomamӧ have always been one of the most violent culture, who are always living in chronic warfare, often over women, so they can maximize their reproductive success and be honorable in their society. I agree with Chagnon in a sense, but also believe the Yanomamӧ are violent with reason and are less violent than industrialized nations, who have contributed to their increase in violence.

Picture this. A beautiful tropical forest, with lush plant life and a huge variety of animals. The forest is huge, covering 40% of South America, Including 60% of Brazil, 13% of Peru, 10% of Colombia, and various parts of other countries, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. It is a little over half the size of the United States. This gorgeous example of natural beauty is called the Amazon Rain Forest. The resources of the Amazon Rain Forest should be developed, but they should be developed sustainably. The Amazon Rain Forest should be developed because it is full of resources, as well as many medicinal plants. It could really boost the economy of South America, mainly Brazil, if used well.

Environmental injustice is an issue everyone just seems to ignore, but in reality this issue as serve as any other type of injustice. Imagine you living in a place where your family as lived for generations, and in that place is where you meet your basic needs, such as: food, water, and shelter. One day without any beforehand warnings that place gets demolished, nothing but sheds of pieces on the ground. Places like the Amazon forest witness such events, animals in the Amazon forest are being forced to adapt in new environment due to massive deforestation that takes place there. Not only is this a negative effect on the animals, but it also contributes a negative effect on the society as a whole. People depend on a vital element called Oxygen,

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

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.

The contemporary issue in the Amazon Region not only affects the indigenous people living there, but has an irreversible global impact. This significant issue relates to engaged citizenship and past indigenous experiences by the way the indigenous peoples stand up for their land rights, become recognized by the government, and show how this issue has an economic effect on the world. According to BBC news, an estimated 333,000 indigenous people live in the Peruvian Amazon. With more than 60% of this region being rainforests, deforestation acts such as illegal logging, illegal mining, agriculture and infrastructure projects are destroying this indigenous land. This land was at risk because of the government’s lack of recognition and enforcement

When the majority of the population is exposed to the words, “the Amazon”, through some form of written or spoken communications, most likely their initial, instinctive response is to visualize the Amazon rainforest as it is portrayed by a staggering amount of both past and present media outlets. This portrayal tends to be one consisting of a vibrantly colored rainforest, brimming with an abundance of diverse and exotic flora and fauna, and, a thriving and well-balanced collection of ecosystems which is, frankly, not even remotely accurate to the actual Amazon rainforest. Behind its deceptive facade endorsed by television, books, and occasionally even news, the Amazon rainforest occupies many dark truths relevant to degradation of the state of the earth’s various ecosystems and environments. Over the last several decades the Amazon has undergone numerous dramatic and, in fact, damaging changes all of which have been attributed to the area’s extensive deforestation.

In the Amazon region of Brazil, regulatory enforcement routinely failed forest conservation efforts to prevent deforestation. A turning point happened in 2005: a combination of unfortunate economic conditions and an organized effort from national institutions produced a noticeable decrease in the destruction of forests. Researchers studied the impact of fines, embargoes on private properties, and confiscating the means of production for deforestation in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Ultimately, the results of these studies showed that measures to increase methods of collection of fines issued are urgently needed.