The future of the amazon rainforest has been at the forefront of many national and international debates. Today we are faced with two decisions: Make money quickly by allowing the rainforest to be cut down without any limits or to make money slowly by logging responsibly allowing the rainforest to be preserved for the use of future generations. The pros of the making money quickly would be quick and huge profits. It would lower the unemployment rate for a short period of time by creating logging
living in the Amazon Rainforest for about 12,000 years? They were know as the Indigenous people. Now, I am going to tell you guys about how the Native Amazonians used the rainforest. They hunt and fish for themselves to feed their own families. The Native Amazonians want to preserve the rainforest because they live there with their families. The rainforest is there home. The Native Amazonians are just trying to save their homes. So I say we should try and save the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest
Conflict over deforestation in the Amazon Ecosystems Assessment The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering a total area of 2.1 million square miles. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and is the most species-rich biome and ecosystem in the world today. More than 15% of the world’s animal and plant species live in the Amazon rainforest, including 30% of all birds. Such an amazing forest, also known as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’
Chico Mendes. Chico Mendes stated, “At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon Rain Forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.” Chico Mendes raised awareness in Brazil due to the injustice his family and community faced by rubber barons, who took control of the Rain Forest territories. Chico Medes was a social and environmental warrior who defended Brazilian Rubber Tappers (Encyclopedia). Born December 15, 1944 in Brazil, Chico
What is the importance of forest that makes all the living organisms lives depend on them? Forest is a natural gift from our mother earth that supplies habitat for living organisms, food, oxygen and natural resources. What is the definition of deforestation? It is an activity which brings permanent damage to the forests and make uses of the land for other purposes. There is about an estimated of 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of trees are chopped down which is roughly the size of the country
Environmental Science and Sustainability (SCI201 -1504A -07) Instructor: Trena Woolridge Phase 1- Discussion Board Amanda Kranning October 6, 2015 Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest Deforestation is the destruction or clearing of forested lands for the purpose of expansion of property for agricultural reason or for harvesting. (Fearnside, 2013) The rain forests, which contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, help stabilize local and global climate. Deforestation may release significant
During the past 50 years, about 20% of the Amazon Rainforest has disappeared. Each day, this number can get higher and higher. Little things can be done to stop deforestation such as planting a tree, or even talking to an environmentalist about what can be done. These things can make a huge difference in our environment. Many of the endangered animals live in the Rainforest, and now the Rainforest is disappearing because of deforestation! Their homes will be gone before you know it, and maybe even
The Yanomami are a small village people, who keep together and work together. Yanomamö is their native tongue, it is the language that they speak. The Yanomami have a different and unique type of culture, for one they do not live with much clothing besides wearing a loincloth. Men and Women keep the same type of hairstyle, which is a round hair cut. And as well they both pierce their noses with bamboo, along with marking their bodies with natural dyes and colors. With the dyes, when men go to war
As Montaigne wrote in his essay on cannibals “Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.” The natives living in the Amazon rainforest of South America did not build permanent structures but moved nomadically, hunting and gathering whatever they may find. Their beliefs in a great god, capable of no evil and other magical
type, so I also wind up stopping to remember a sentence or two that I loved, but have already forgotten. This has already happened to me twice since I started writing this. I think the worst time was in 7th grade when i was writing an essay about the Amazon rainforest. I remember very distinctly, I was sitting at my desk typing, and I came up with a wondrous sentence describing the mating habits of the capybara, and I just forgot it. Eventually I settled for a second-rate sentence