Deforestation within the Amazon Rainforest
- Created by: MelissaisgonnagetanA
- Created on: 14-11-18 18:50
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- Deforestation within the Amazon Rainforest
- Causes
- Logging
- Mahogany
- Commercial farming
- Soy
- Hugely profitable
- Many companies imnport soy
- not all companies follow rules that protect rainforest
- Soy
- Subsistence farming
- Sustainable
- Small scale
- Grileiros
- Follow logging roads
- Claim land
- Logging
- Impacts
- Droughts
- More greenhouse gases
- Soil erosion
- Loss of biodiversity
- Loss of potential medicine
- Loss of land for indigenous people
- Droughts
- Responses
- Ibama
- Set up by the government
- Protected areas
- National parks
- Preserves local culture
- Indigenous land
- Preserves local culture
- Indigenous land
- National parks
- Industry coorperation
- Freezed purchases from recently cleared areas
- Improved enforcement
- Patrolling roads leading to rainforest
- Catch illegal loggers etc.
- Ibama
- Causes
- Climate change
- Rainforset acts as a sink for CO2
- Reduced sink means more CO2
- Added CO2 in atmosphere
- More greenhouse gases
- Added CO2 in atmosphere
- Reduced sink means more CO2
- Impacts
- Droughts
- Soil erosion
- Loss of biodiversity
- Loss of potential medicine
- Loss of land for indigenous people
- Droughts
- Rainforset acts as a sink for CO2
- No roots to hold in place
- Washed away by rain
- Nutrients wahsed away
- Infertile soil
- Nutrients wahsed away
- Washed away by rain
- More surface run-off
- Increased chance of flooding
- Washed away by rain
- Nutrients wahsed away
- Infertile soil
- Nutrients wahsed away
- Rainforests hold 50% animals
- Destroying habitats
- 5-18% endemic animals will become extinct
- Cascade effect onto food web
- Rainforests hold 50% animals
- Destroying habitats
- Forced to integrate into different land
- Governments contradict human rights for money
- Loss of culture
- Pay for performance
- Norway given £1 billion
- International incentives
- Responses
- Ibama
- Set up by the government
- Protected areas
- National parks
- Preserves local culture
- Preserves local culture
- National parks
- Industry coorperation
- Freezed purchases from recently cleared areas
- Improved enforcement
- Patrolling roads leading to rainforest
- Catch illegal loggers etc.
- Ibama
- Responses
- International incentives
- Norway given £1 billion
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