Brazil, Amazon, Deforestation

The Amazon covers a area 8 million km
1. however since 1970 over 600,000 km have been destroyed
  1. 1) 60% was caused by cattle ranching
  2. 2) 33% was caused by small-scale subsistences farming
  3. 3) 3% was cause by logging
  4. 5) 3% was caused by mining, urbanisation, road construction, dams and fires
  5. 4) 1% was caused by large scale commercial famring
Environmental impacts
1. Habitat and loss of biodiversity
  1. number of endangered species went from 218 in 1989 to 628 in 2008
2. the Amazon stores around 100 billion tonnes of carbon
  1. deforestation will release the carbon dioxide, which causes global warming
Social impacts
1. local ways of life have been affected
2. native tribes have been forced to move
3. there's conflict between large land owners, subsistence and native people
econmic impact
1. farming make a lot of money for countries in the rainforest
  1. in 2008, Brazil made $6.9 million from cattle trading
2. the mining industry creates jobs for loads of people
  1. the Buenaventura mining company in Peru employs over 3100 people
sustainable management
1. deforest areas are being replanted with new trees
  1. Peru plans to replant more than 100,000 km of forest before 2018
2. reducing the amount of hard wood logging
3. Ecotourism is becoming more popular
4. national parks

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	Created by will.kingston about 11 years ago