Dangers That the Amazon Faces
The dangers of the Amazon are mainly caused by humans. WE are the main reason that the Amazon is dying. Here is a short slideshow on the reasons that the Amazon is dying.
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Threats
The amazon has a lot of threats to deal with.Here are majority.
•Logging interests cut down rain forest trees for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items.
•The paper industry turns huge tracts of rain forest trees into pulp.
•The cattle industry uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear ranch land.
•Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for cropland.
•Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity.
•Subsistence farmer’s slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room for crops and grazing lands.
•Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines.
•Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads.
•Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest.
•Logging interests cut down rain forest trees for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items.
•The paper industry turns huge tracts of rain forest trees into pulp.
•The cattle industry uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear ranch land.
•Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for cropland.
•Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity.
•Subsistence farmer’s slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room for crops and grazing lands.
•Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines.
•Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads.
•Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest.
- Alien species eat the trees, plants, and animals
that are vital to the survival of the rainforest and river
Soultions
Here are some soultions to the threats above.
•Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them would save millions of acres of rain forest every year.
•Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation.
•Encouraging people who live near rain forests to harvest its bounty (nuts, fruits, medicines) rather than clear-cutting it for farmland would save millions of acres.
•Government moratoriums on road building and large infrastructure projects in the rain forest would save many acres.
•Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them would save millions of acres of rain forest every year.
•Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation.
•Encouraging people who live near rain forests to harvest its bounty (nuts, fruits, medicines) rather than clear-cutting it for farmland would save millions of acres.
•Government moratoriums on road building and large infrastructure projects in the rain forest would save many acres.
