Tropical Rainforest Management
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- Explain the management initiatives used in rainforests where resources have been extracted (6)
- COSTA RICA
- Developing rainforest in a sustainable way.
- One way is through ecotourism
- Many areas of the country, including the famous Cloud Forest area have developed tourist facilities such as zip wiring and trails through the forest
- Very popular with tourists
- Developing rainforest in a sustainable way.
- VENEZUALA
- Since 2008, government of Venezuala has not issued any further permits to mine gold or diamonds in the Imataca Rainforest Reserve or anywhere else in the country
- The country does not need to exploit the minerals for economic reasons (due to its oil reserves)
- Therefore, it can afford to conserve its forest area
- ECUADOR
- Chief of local Secoya tribe, stated that $6 billion was needed to do the job properly
- Texaco has agreed to pay $40 million to cover its share for cleanup of, among other things, some 160 of 600 waste pits created.
- Local indigenous people have taken oil companies to court due to the destruction of their environment.
- Companies have done little to manage the effects of extraction
- Oil extracted from Amazon Rainforest, since 1960s
- MADAGASCAR
- in 2001 Givaudan, a Swiss company, sent a team to Madagascar to survey for new fragrances.
- It developed 40 aromas that were then sold.
- The company shared the profits with local communities through conservation and development initiatives.
- MALAYSIA
- In Malaysia the government has rejected plans to build a coal-fired power plant at Silam, on the island of Borneo.
- The government decided that it did not want to pollute the area and more environmentally friendly forms of energy would need to be found.
- The country has vast reserves of coal and other minerals such as gold.
- The government will not develop these resources at the expense of the rainforest which has many endangered species such as the orangutan.
- Instead it is going to develop ecotourism, emphasising the natural attractions such as world-class diving and the biologically diverse tropical rainforest.
- COSTA RICA
- ECUADOR
- Chief of local Secoya tribe, stated that $6 billion was needed to do the job properly
- Texaco has agreed to pay $40 million to cover its share for cleanup of, among other things, some 160 of 600 waste pits created.
- Local indigenous people have taken oil companies to court due to the destruction of their environment.
- Companies have done little to manage the effects of extraction
- Oil extracted from Amazon Rainforest, since 1960s
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