How can we develop the rainforest sustainably

How can we develop the rainforest sustainably

1. Selective Logging

   • guarantees sustainability of world products
   • only need to take down the trees they want
   • forest friendly method as floor doesn't need to be cleared
   • elephants run on green fuel

2. Reducing debt-conservation swaps

   • converts debt into a fund to convert tropical ecosystems
   • US and Brazil signed an agreement
   • supports conservation and boosts the livelihoods of those who live there
   • 90% of the Atlantic forest and Brazil has been cleared over the centuries
   • 200 bird species and 21 primates found nowhere else on earth

3. Replanting

   • government of acre used to allow land owners to deforest 50% of land
   • new legislation says only 20%
   • in the process of making land owners replant 30% of their land