Effects of resource extraction from tropical rainforests
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- Explain the effects of resource extraction on tropical rainforest areas. (6)
- OIL EXTRACTION IN ECUADOR
- Miscarriages are common and stomach cancer is five times more frequent in the Oriente region because of hydrocarbons in river water.
- Many plants, such as the periwinkle which is used to cure childhood leukaemia, are becoming extinct.
- MINING IN BRAZIL
- The Carajas iron ore plant uses wood to power the plant. This results in annual deforestation of 6100km2
- The River Tapajos is contaminated with mercury used when gold is mined, affecting 90% of all fish caught.
- This leads to high levels of cancer in the local people
- LOGGING IN THE CAMEROON
- Roads built by the logging companies have opened up the forest to hunters.
- This had led to elephants and chimpanzees being killed and their meat being sold for high prices to restaurants
- The local Baka people work in the sawmills without any protective clothing.
- This leads to them breathing in the toxic products which are used to treat the wood.
- Roads built by the logging companies have opened up the forest to hunters.
- MINING IN INDONESIA
- 285,000 tonnes of mining waste are dumped into the River Aghawaghon every day.
- This pollutes fish and means there is a shortage of water for local people.
- Crocodiles in the area of Teluk Etna are currently on the brink of extinction.
- 285,000 tonnes of mining waste are dumped into the River Aghawaghon every day.
- GAS PIPELINE IN PERU
- Local people are exposed to diseases that they are not immune to.
- During the 1980s half of the Nahua died from influenza and whooping cough.
- Many roads have been built through the forest in the Camisea region allowing settlers into the area who then cut down the forest to farm.
- Local people are exposed to diseases that they are not immune to.
- OIL EXTRACTION IN ECUADOR
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