The government should create protected reserves in the Amazon Rainforest for rubber tappers because,they care/want to make a living from the rainforest. Rubber tappers also do not hurt the rainforest. They feel that the area should be set aside for sustainable activities for the rubber tappers. One reason the government should create protected reserves for the rubber tapper is because Rubber tappers care/ want to make a living from the rainforest. For example, In the article “Deep In The Amazon, An Unseen Battle Over The Most Valuable Trees” I found out that “Rubber Tappers do care for their rainforest and they do want to make a living off it . This also shows that it affects them when something happens in the rainforest or to the rainforest . The quotes that i use to support my claim was...“I ask Pilker, the rubber-tapper leader, what the future of the rainforest is. Her whole family lives off forest reserves like these. She breaks down sobbing, tears tracking down her face like rain. We struggle so much to defend the land, we fight so hard," she tells me. We die, so many have died to defend what you see here.”, this quote supports my claim well because This shows that the “Rubber Tappers do care for their rainforest and they do want to make a living off it . This …show more content…
In the article "Deep in the Amazon, an unseen battle over the most valuable trees" i found a quote that supports my claim,“Making diagonal cuts in the bark from the rubber tree to make sap” . This quote supports my claim because they make diagonal cuts in the rubber tree so it won't harm the trees and make them die quicker or it won't produce weaken rubber. This explains how rubber tappers don't hurt the rainforest and how they care for the trees in the
Napoleon Chagnon has spent about 60 months since 1964 studying the ‘foot people’ of the Amazon Basin known as the Yanomamo. In his ethnography, Yanomamo, he describes all of the events of his stay in the Venezuelan jungle. He describes the “hideous” appearance of the Yanomamo men when first meeting them, and their never-ending demands for Chagnon’s foreign goods, including his food. There are many issues that arise when considering Chagnon’s Yanomamo study. The withholding of genealogical information by the tribesmen, and how Chagnon was able to obtain his information is an interesting and significant aspect of this study. Why did Chagnon feel that this genealogical information was important? And was Chagnon’s choice to study the Yanomamo, despite their hesitancy to cooperate, a wise and ethical one?
The Yanomamo’s or also referred as Yanomami and Yanomama, are a group of nearly 35,000 indigenous people who live in some approximately 200 villages in the Amazon rainforest of South America between Venezuela and Brazil. Like most other tribes the Yanomamo migrated across the passages between Asia and America about 15,000 years ago making their way down to South America and is one of the last ancient cultures still remaining. The meaning of Yanomamo is “Human Being.” The Yanomamo are made up of four subdivisions within their tribe and have their own language which consists of: The Sanema which live in the Northern Sector, the Ninam which live in the southeastern sector, the Yanomam that live in the southeastern part, and the Yanomamo which live in the southwestern part of Yanomami area. The Yanomamo were one of the tribes that remained unknown until the 1960’s who were discovered by anthropologists, Napoleon Chagnon and which his first impressions described them as fierce people.
Forced labor system in Amazonia, isolated their workers—often being seParáted from others, working long trails and seParáted from their family. Based on primary accounts of explorers of the Amazon during the Rubber Boom, there are documented accounts of forced laborers being sick from European diseases, their native wives were sexually assaulted and their children were sold as servants. Survivors experienced a loss of their ethnic identity and forced from their lands. Because conditions were unfavorable to the rubber tappers, Rubber Barons had a constant fear of employees leaving without paying their debts. To insure tappers would not return to their previous homes Rubber Barons “exerted greater control over their labor forces by building portage roads around the rapids and patrolling the only safe passages downstream.” Many of the patrols would be armed, forcing laborers to produce rubber at higher rates and making sure they would not leave without paying off their debts.
Governments in these countries need to stop thinking of forests as a renewable resource. The rate at which they are harvesting these areas drives them beyond the boundaries of sustainability. The efforts required by reforestation may not initially be cost effective, but it will result in not only the survivability of the environment, but of the country’s economy. Widespread awareness of these ideas will help fight against the natural human tendency towards instant gratification and short-term goals. Different methods of logging can be utilized to allow the rainforests to survive and regrow naturally and at a sustainable
The Amazon Rain Forest Is in Danger of Being Destroyed" by Devadas Vittal. Rain Forests. HaiSong Harvey, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2002. Reprinted from Devadas Vittal, Introduction: What Is the Amazon Rainforest? Internet: http://www.homepages.go.com/homepages/d/v/i/dvittal/amazon/intro.html, November 1999, by permission of the author. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010021212&mode=view
There are many rainforests in the world but one of the biggest one is the Amazon rainforest, which is located in the northern half of South America and lies in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The Amazon also lies in between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. The size of the Amazon resembles the size of the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. Since this rain forest lies next to the Equator, the climate is warm and humid. The average temperature is in between sixty-eight to ninety- three degrees. The Amazon has two seasons but each one is six months each. They are classified as the wet season and the dry season. The wet season occurs between December to May and the dry season occurs between June to November. The average rainfall is fifty to two hundred and sixty inches per year. The forest floor only gets up to two to five percent of sunlight since the canopy blocks the sunlight from getting to the forest floor. The Amazon rain forest got the nickname, the world’s pharmacy, because many medicines have been found in the tree bark, the tree’s leaves, and other parts of the trees.
This policy memo addresses the development and expansion of the cattle ranching industry in Brazil, which has contributed to the mass deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon in the last 40 years. It exposes the regional and global consequences to deforestation and provides strategies for the Brazilian government to sustainably manage cattle ranching industries while protecting the future of the Amazon. The rainforest ecosystem is an immense reserve of natural recourses that is far more valuable than the beef produced on Brazilian cattle ranches. Not only does the rainforest create habitat for up to 65% of the world’s biodiversity, but when harvested sustainably, it provides humans with an abundance of spices, foods, oils, medicines and vital research areas (NEWMAN).
The beautiful Amazon rainforest “covers a vast area of more than two and one-half million square kilometers” (The Amazon: Its Developers, Destroyers). It is home to a wide variety of plants and animals, not found anywhere else in the world. Scientists believe that there are still many yet to be found. The Amazon is also home to many tribes who have been there for a long period of time. These tribes accommodate medicine men who know the secrets of the rainforest and the healing properties not yet discovered by scientists. The mysterious Amazon is a long-time treasure that needs to be preserved, because there is so much still to be discovered. However, everyday these opportunities are being taken away from future generations because of the human influence on the Amazon rainforest. Future cures for diseases and the discovery of new life in the Amazon are being destroyed more and more every day. Human influence is negatively effecting the Amazon rainforest.
... on tropical rainforests may include: educating the general public and future generations about human impact on tropical rainforests and how they can help to save them, Restoring damaged ecosystems by planting trees on land where forests have been cut down, Encouraging people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment, Establishing parks to protect rainforests and wildlife and Supporting companies that operate in ways that minimize damage to the environment. Small, simple actions may involve following the famous environmental slogan “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, Eating organic foods, purchasing products that use "CERTIFIED" wood (wood that was legally cut down), Wearing jewellery that has not been mined (such as glass), turning of any electrical appliances, reducing water usage and using a reusable canvas bag instead of taking the plastic bags at the store.
Brazil deforestation has been a global issue for the past decades. In the Amazon rainforest, there have been many miles of trees cut down by loggers, ranchers, and farmers. This has happened ever since the 1970’s when “a flood of miners and settlers rushed into the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, hungry for gold and land” (Brown). The rainforest has been called the world’s lung because it has billion of trees that produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide produced in the air by factories and pollution (Saving). Since it has been cut down, thousands of square miles, it is not absorbing much carbon dioxide and not producing enough oxygen for us to breathe. The government has not made this global issue a top priority because they know that it will cost billions of dollars to restore and fix the rainforest since so much of it has been cut down. The amazon rainforest is 2.124 million square miles and they have cut 20% of the Amazon. “Every day, an average of 214,000 acres (86,000 hectares) of the tropical forest disappears” (“Rainforest”). Also many medicines come from the amazon, and if we keep cutting it down, then we won’t be able to create these medicines to cure people.
The Amazon rainforest has many problems. I will be telling you about three of them. they are that Sao Paulo is running out of water as the rain-making Amazon vanishes, the campaign to keep the oil in the ground in the Amazon, and lastly, about how Amazon Watch is standing with the Indigenous People, and defending the Rainforest...
The Waorani are dependent on the forest for their survival. The Waorani depend on the animals for food, the plants for medicine, the crops to build their homes and beds (Nova 1984). If the company’s palm oil plantations take away the forest, then they are taking away their source of protein as the monkeys will become scarce for them to find. The medicinal plants will be taken away as deforestation occurs and biodiversity among plants and animals decreases. The palm oil companies build large plantations that take away from the amount of land the Waorani will have access to. If these companies continue like this they will end up taking away too much of the forest and the Waorani’s nomadic way of life will no longer be successful and may even disappear.And the Waorani will not be the only tribe affected by the palm oil industry the Q...
Thesis statement: rainforest are being destroyed because the value of forest land which is consider as the best sources of timber for export by government and help to economic of country and logging companies and land owners.
The Amazon Rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest that we have today on our planet. It covers a wide range expanding almost entirely across from East to West of South America. It is most famous for its broad biodiversity and includes the famous Amazon River that is home to rare and diverse species. Today, the Amazon Rainforest is under threat of complete deforestation and has greatly lost more than half of its tropical rainforest due to cattle ranching, soy bean farming, sugar cane plantations, palm oil and biofuel agriculture. The indigenous people are doing their best to fight against the government to protect their land and conserve the rainforest but without capital finance, it is seeming to be an impossible project.
The social and moral implications of diminishing rainforest biodiversity are great. From a human welfare perspective, the livelihoods of tens of millions of indigenous peoples depend on the forests, but thousands are being pushed out of their homes because they lack the shelter and support that the forest once gave them (Salim 3). These groups have "developed knowledge and cultures in accordance with their environment through thousands of years, and even physically they are adapted to the life in the forest" (Nyborg). For many of the people living in these areas, the forest is the only resource they have providing them with food, shelter and cultural ties. With the invasion and destruction of their homeland, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.