Disadvantages Of Deforestation In The Amazon

In the nonfiction articles, “Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear” by John Vidal and “Amazon Doomed Species Set to Pay Extinction Price” by Ian Sample explain deforestation and the costs of the situation. Both authors include strong points that give an idea of how the forests may end. Vidal gives many details about the consequences of deforestation, while Sample gives some details but not as many. Although Sample sets a good idea and generalization of deforestation in the Amazon, Vidal gives strong details that show the social conflicts, life-threatening effects, and future disadvantages and benefits of deforestation. Vidal elaborates well on the social conflicts due to deforestation and new companies in the article “Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear”. He claims there have been 600 major conflicts within the plantations. The conflicts and effects between the villages and companies induced over five thousand human rights abused followed by “twenty-two deaths and hundreds of injuries” (paragraph 8). Sadly, many of the community villagers have to work at the factories due to losing their resources from the wild. Many official

Vidal makes strong points over the effects of deforestation in the Amazon. Habitats are destroyed and abandoned. Villages have no choice but to work for the companies who destroy their only resources. Many species are going extinct as well. International Union for Conservation of Nature says, “250-400 tigers remain and fewer than 100 rhinos are left in the forests” (paragraph 5). Deforestation causes this problem to worsen over time. In addition, millions of acres withhold only fragments of the forest. Pollution covers the area with “a haze of blue smoke” (paragraph 1), and industrial landscape stretches over 30 miles of the forest. If deforestation is to continue, those in the Amazon face the possibility extinction, or for the villagers,