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Title: The Challenges of Crafting a Thesis on Deforestation in the Amazon

In the realm of academic pursuits, few tasks are as formidable as the creation of a thesis. Among the
myriad of subjects that demand rigorous research and analytical thinking, delving into the intricate
complexities of deforestation in the Amazon is a particularly challenging endeavor. As researchers
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One of the foremost difficulties lies in the sheer vastness and complexity of the topic. The Amazon
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This shows that the dates were exaggerated because April 2002 had not come yet. As Brazil is in
debt, they need to pay back the money to MEDC’s who gave Brazil a loan. We should also invest
into new technologies and ways of making energy as an alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear power.
The HEP stations provide cheap and plentiful energy for transport, domestic use and industry. The
other group of people wants to protect the rainforest and leave it as it is. There is uneven
development most of eastern Brazil more developed than the west. The government has protected
National Parks as it says in source C that the government has protected the rare areas of outstanding
natural beauty to preserve and protect the future as these cannot be produced again. These cookies
do not store any personal information. The economic transformation of the Amazon based on the
conversion and degradation of its natural habitat is gaining momentum. It sounds fair that Brazils
wants to build their country but to pay back this money they need to get it from somewhere and that
is when the Rainforest comes in. The owner would gain from his business and would also place
many local people in employment. The Amazon rainforest has a very large unexplored bio diversity
which means that it may provide us with a lot of medicines and herbs for the future. Scientists found
deforestation in July was four times higher than the average in the previous three years. To maintain
sustainability in the rainforest using this method of extracting minerals from the rainforest extraction
of the minerals could take place in parts of the rainforests which have already been deforested as a
result of timber trade rather than deforesting new areas of the rainforest. These valuable minerals are
sold to economically developed countries. By: Kelly Teahan, Lane Martin, Sydney Rosen, and
Timmy Walsh. In order for these to be provided water and electricity systems will need to be
accessible in the rainforest which could cause some deforestation. This source also talks about
slavery which existed in the rainforest, which was abolished in 1888. Soil in the rainforests is very
poor in nutrients as all the nutrients are stored in the vast number of trees and plants. Upload Read
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What is Scribd. The forest should however in the future be cleared carefully by only cutting
necessary and useful trees and not damaging the habitat at the same time. However as the scale of
tourism in a natural place such as the rainforest is extremely diminutive, it is highly likely that the
local people would not benefit as much from the use of tourism in the rainforest as using the
rainforest to extract valuable materials or for selling timber. Please include what you were doing
when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. For that reason,
workers on cattle ranches would be in favour of this use of the rainforest. Venezuela and the Guyana
have all had lower deforestation levels since. The MNC’s are also involved in logging, which has
been permitted only in 13 designated areas. Where the entire dairy, poultry, fish, crops and live stock
are supplied to super markets around the country. These people living in the forest want to preserve
and use the resources from the forest to improve their standard of living. If the area contains many
rare species of trees and animals then deforestation here should not be allowed, to prevent the
species from becoming extinct.
To maintain sustainability of the rainforest without entirely abandoning ecotourism, restrictions
should be made on exactly how much development of the tourist industry should be allowed in the
rainforest. Most of the materials can be recycled such as aluminium from the bauxite extracted as
well as the iron and this environmentally friendly method could cause less destruction of the
rainforest. The external debt of Brazil’s is getting lower by letting people and companies fell the trees
in the rainforest as you can see in Source G shows a graph of the external debt of Brazil, which
shows at the beginning the debt was low and then in the middle it got higher and now its getting
lower. Such a moratorium would avoid or reduce the catastrophic impacts caused by
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our terms and conditions. He holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of
Arizona, with minors in journalism and media arts. Additionally, individuals keeping cattle have also.
Another method is the slash and burn method which consists of burning massive areas of the forest
just to clear land (this method is used to clear land for new roads, mining, HEP stations, cattle
ranching, small scale farming and large scale). The poll also suggested that the Amazon rainforest is
the Top Priority. Mostly the MNC’s, they have cleared large areas for cattle ranching. The effects of
the rainforest destruction are very bad. Not to mention that the tree roots which were anchoring the
soil will be removed as well. The rainforest encompasses an area of 1.2billion acres which is equal to
7million kilometres sq. Other governments in South America have been slower in dealing with. This
source tells us that America is the largest polluter. The Brazilian government has employed people
from the favelas to work for these companies so the profit does not go straight out of the companies.
Even in the U.K there has been serious flooding and heavy rain in the summer of 2006. The effects
on people in developed countries and other countries are felt as temperature have risen and this has
increased the no of weather storms, tornados, hurricanes, flooding and typhoons. It says it’s a
Brazilian newspaper but we don’t know which one, we don’t know how many Amerindians there
were in the beginning. The army’s thoughts may have been influenced by the fact that they did not
want to talk negative about their country, so they may have given an unreliable opinion. This
category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website.
Let you know the causes and implications behind the vast deforestation of the Amazon Forest.
Nearly all the debt Brazil has is because of the money borrowed from MEDC’s such as the US, UK,
France and Germany etc. Amazon River, it is often called the “lungs of the earth”. This can then
cause blockages and flood in lowland rivers and will also leave highland rivers dry. We also use
third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Source A talks
about the Indians who are dying as development takes place. Lumbering is done for different
purposes including selling the logs. Deforestation also adds to the problem of the destruction of the
scenery which natural conservationists and tourists of the rainforest would be against, and also
because of the extinction of a variety of different species of animals and plants. The mining
companies also benefit from it because there are huge deposits of iron ore, copper, gold, bauxite and
other minerals in the rainforests.
Unleashing the Power of AI Tools for Enhancing Research, International FDP on. Nevertheless, the
destruction of the rainforest will be vast and this use of the rainforest will not protect the forest. The
forest is being cleared as Brazil need money from the clearing of land, logging, mining and cattle-
ranching. The source’s purpose was to inform people about the problems indigenous people are
facing living in the Amazon rainforest. The source links to my hypothesis that deforestation is not
just the Brazilian government’s problem because the indigenous people affected by deforestation of
the Amazon rainforest do not only live in Brazil, they live in Paraguay and Bolivia as well. MinHo
Kotaro. objectives. To Inform you about the current situation of deforestation in the Amazon. These
raw materials can be sold to economically developed countries, however, growing these crops will be
a slow process and the workers would not benefit straight away. So, air pollution will likely
significantly increase COVID-19 infections and deaths, with the most devastating impacts among
traditional and Indigenous people. Why haven't we mined it? 4 1,800-year-old Roman tombs in
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WendyMac33 4.27 56 reviews Not the right resource. The rest is mainly forest land with no
sanitation facilities, electricity or Central heating or any solid roads. The HEP stations provide cheap
and plentiful energy for transport, domestic use and industry. Unleashing the Power of AI Tools for
Enhancing Research, International FDP on. Oil explorations on their land have destroyed their forest
and polluted their rivers, she says. Global Forest Watch Pro keeps track of deforestation in around
agricultural concessions over time and makes that data freely available; Cargill and the Aqueduct
Alliance are two partner companies. The government is also involved in causing more global warming
and itself has done some deforestation in the rainforest. As the Amazon is a major global issue it
means that everyone is affected by it, hence not a lot of countries are taking important and
significant decisions. Therefore restrictions would preserve the sustainability of the uses of the
rainforest without causing future harm to the rainforest itself. Different land clearing techniques
which care harmful to the environment and to the rainforest like slush and burn have been adopted
by individuals and are used in clearing the Amazon forest (Campari 2). People went to complain to
the police about this but the police were corrupt and bribed and were useless. These valuable
minerals are sold to economically developed countries. Scholars can use them for free to gain
inspiration and new creative ideas for their writing assignments. Professor Jos Barlow, lead author of
the paper said: “The marked upturn in both active fire counts and deforestation in 2019 therefore
refutes suggestions by the Brazilian government that August 2019 was a normal fire month in the
Amazon.”. Another method is the slash and burn method which consists of burning massive areas of
the forest just to clear land (this method is used to clear land for new roads, mining, HEP stations,
cattle ranching, small scale farming and large scale). The MNC’s are also involved in logging, which
has been permitted only in 13 designated areas. It is very reliable because it’s consistent with source
G but only the date is old. Deforestation is the mass cutting down and removal of all or most trees in
a forested area. Causes. Other countries such as the US and the UK should try to regulate import
from Brazil. Individuals living around the Amazon use it to cut down trees and clear bushes before
setting fire on the area to get rid of the cut and cleared trees and bushes. The source states that “only
the army thought the forests were not the main economic resource of the Amazon.
Under the forest lie huge amounts of valuable minerals like iron ore, bauxite and gold, some of
which are vital to daily life. Buffaloes have been used to drag the trees out, without the need to build
roads. They also found that the number of active fires was three times higher than they were in 2018,
reaching their highest levels since 2010. This source is consistent with Source J because it tells how
the external debt got higher. There would also be one problem that the workers would face on the
cattle ranch. These raw materials can be sold to economically developed countries, however, growing
these crops will be a slow process and the workers would not benefit straight away. It is very reliable
because it’s consistent with source G but only the date is old. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130
West 42nd Street. Where the entire dairy, poultry, fish, crops and live stock are supplied to super
markets around the country. The Brazilian government has been implementing new measure to
reduce deforestation such as limiting the number of sites from where you can log mahogany to 13.
However as timber is such a vital resource for everyday life virtually everywhere in the world,
deforestation cannot come to an end immediately because of the timber being such a reliable source.
As part of the exercise, students perform a cost-benefit analysis of clearing a plot of tropical forest in
the Amazon from the perspective of one of these stakeholder groups. The earth main defence against
global warming is the Amazon rainforest, then why destroy it. The purpose of this illustration is to
show that people who eat burgers from McDonalds are responsible for eating away the Amazon
rainforest. This is because the roots of the trees once held the soil together, to prevent it from
collapsing, and a lot of the nutrients in the soil were also provided by the trees. This category only
includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Similarly, this
use of the rainforest will not help protect the rainforest however, the destruction of it would not be
on such a large scale as the large companies' use of the forest. Workers will improve their standard of
living from this as plantations will allow vital crops such as sugar, coffee and rubber plants to be
grown. If plants are lost in Brazil medicines are lost in Britain.Whatever happens 6000 miles away in
Brazil has its effects on the people living in the U.K and everywhere else in the world ( GLOBAL
Warming). This therefore helps part of the country to become more developed as many homes would
have the basic amenities that a home in the developed country would have. Upload Read for free
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Scribd. These valuable minerals are sold to economically developed countries. Unleashing the Power
of AI Tools for Enhancing Research, International FDP on. It has also killed 96% of the Indians
living in the rainforest because of the arrival of the Europeans. We monitor companies’ commitments
and their reported progress towards achieving them, both at the general and commodity-specific
level. We have so far only learnt have to use 1% of the total number of Amazonian plants, imagine
what cures and medicines we could get from the other 99% of plants. It began in the Mediterranean
lands many centuries ago. Because of the increase of carbon dioxide it has started to destroy the
ozone layer, which then lets the harmful rays from the sun reach earth. It sounds fair that Brazils
wants to build their country but to pay back this money they need to get it from somewhere and that
is when the Rainforest comes in. The forest is being cleared as Brazil need money from the clearing
of land, logging, mining and cattle-ranching.
However, changing times has forced individuals and the government to make unwise concession to
allow the food growth into the region is a main source of rainfall. Last month, a group of investment
firms, mainly European, sent a letter expressing concern over rising deforestation and demanded
forceful action against illegal activities in the Amazon. Unleashing the Power of AI Tools for
Enhancing Research, International FDP on. Besides destroying the land under which the minerals
lie, room has to be made for the power stations needed. Source E supports my point, it says that “The
USA is the main importer of Brazilian mahogany”. There are many people that have an interest in the
rainforest such as the large companies in the developed countries who buy the raw materials such as
the wood from the rainforest. It’s incomplete and it also tells us that the Multinational Companies
(MNC’s) and the government are working together to move the people to the Amazon. There is also
the problem of the change in the climate caused by deforestation, for whatever reason, whether it is
to extract minerals or to sell timber, to be considered when dealing with the issues of deforestation.
Consequences of deforestation and mitigation measures. Amazon rainforest covers most of the
amazon Basin of South America and it is a moist broadleaf forest. This resource hasn't been
reviewed yet To ensure quality for our reviews, only customers who have purchased this resource can
review it Report this resource to let us know if it violates our terms and conditions. Understand
issues facing the major stakeholders in the Amazon. There should also be an increase in the re-
planting of trees. The solution to this is to manage the rainforest sustainable which is using the
resources carefully like when cutting down the trees needed you shouldn’t destroy the surroundings
with it. Where is the Amazon Rainforest, ie its country and continent? The government has protected
National Parks as it says in source C that the government has protected the rare areas of outstanding
natural beauty to preserve and protect the future as these cannot be produced again. As part of the
exercise, students perform a cost-benefit analysis of clearing a plot of tropical forest in the Amazon
from the perspective of one of these stakeholder groups. These cookies will be stored in your
browser only with your consent. When oil and logging come to remove huge areas of their forest
they also bring diseases with them which the indigenous people have no immunisation against.
Forests cover around a quarter to a third of the total land surface of the Earth. These developments
are taking place now in the Amazon rainforest e.g. Commercial logging, cattle ranches, raw materials,
mining and e.t.c. when these development takes place large areas of the rainforest has to be cleared
out. They also sometimes flood huge areas to built dams. Loss of biodiversity Impact on climate
Moderating impact on climate Carbon sink Global forest destruction by burning second largest
contribution to GHG emission. Protecting the Amazon and other rainforests is one of the most cost-
effective ways to combat the ongoing climate crisis, according to Amazonconservation.org. In
Photos: Plants in Danger of Disappearing 8 Ways Global Warming is Already Changing the World
Images of Melt: Earth’s Vanishing Ice Originally published on Live Science. One of them is that the
Brazilian government has allowed deforestation to take place in the Amazon rainforest is because
they are in debt. Unfortunately that has been reason behind the deforestation activities going on
around the Amazon. We all want to stop global warming and its time that governments seriously have
a MAJOR rethink. Brazil has though the biggest percentage of ethanol powered cars in the world.
Global Forest Watch Pro keeps track of deforestation in around agricultural concessions over time
and makes that data freely available; Cargill and the Aqueduct Alliance are two partner companies.
However, using buffaloes to remove the trees would be slow development for the government so a
few roads could be built.
It began in the Mediterranean lands many centuries ago. However if trees are removed from the
forests then the nutrients and the rain protection from the canopy will be removed. This government
today is the worst enemy of the Amazon,” said Marcio Astrini, public policy coordinator for
Greenpeace, in a statement. Another use of the rainforest is for valuable minerals. We should also
invest into new technologies and ways of making energy as an alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear
power. The effects on people in developed countries and other countries are felt as temperature have
risen and this has increased the no of weather storms, tornados, hurricanes, flooding and typhoons.
This timber is in great demand in economically developed countries like Britain, Japan and USA. By
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Darrell Burrell.pptx CapTechTalks Webinar Feb 2024 Darrell Burrell.pptx Sample essay on the causes
and consequences of deforestation of the amazon rainforest 1. Allowing food growth to sustain life
does not mean that major sites like the Amazon rain forest should be destroyed. We also use third-
party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. After the rain there is a
lot of heat given by the sun which bakes the poor soil, which then the areas of the forest which don’t
have trees turn into deserts. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest,
CBS.com, the Richard Dawkins Foundation website and other outlets. One point to be considered is
that the jobs created will economically develop the country because tax will be introduced and the
government could benefit from the tax money to improve the country by building schools and
hospitals etc. This is because the roots of the trees once held the soil together, to prevent it from
collapsing, and a lot of the nutrients in the soil were also provided by the trees. To maintain
sustainability in the rainforest using this method of extracting minerals from the rainforest extraction
of the minerals could take place in parts of the rainforests which have already been deforested as a
result of timber trade rather than deforesting new areas of the rainforest. These valuable minerals are
sold to economically developed countries. The source links to my hypothesis that deforestation is not
just the Brazilian government’s problem because the indigenous people affected by deforestation of
the Amazon rainforest do not only live in Brazil, they live in Paraguay and Bolivia as well. The
multinational companies pay tax for every area they felled but they benefit from it because the
money goes back to the banks in MEDC countries to pay off their debts. Forests cover around a
quarter to a third of the total land surface of the Earth. As the Amazon is a major global issue it
means that everyone is affected by it, hence not a lot of countries are taking important and
significant decisions. It is situated in 9 countries in South America with the most of it being in Brazil
(60%) and the rest of it in Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guiana, Suriname and
French Guiana. Professor Jos Barlow, lead author of the paper said: “The marked upturn in both
active fire counts and deforestation in 2019 therefore refutes suggestions by the Brazilian
government that August 2019 was a normal fire month in the Amazon.”. Before, age the Amazon
rainforest was protected because individuals were hunters and gatherers hence did not venture into
farming. Mostly the MNC’s, they have cleared large areas for cattle ranching. There are other reasons
why is reliable that is it there has been an interview with the MNC’s, it’s got facts, its quite recent, it
has got dates and it tells us the true corruption. However, there are many disadvantages of the use of
the rainforest in this method. As a result, some members of European legislatures have said they
would vote against ratification of a free-trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur
customs union that includes Brazil, which was signed in June 2019 after two decades of negotiation.
The Brazilian government has created a new federal force to fight environmental crime, for which
3,000 new agents will be hired and will also train 1,500 staff currently in Brazil’s environmental
agencies. They depend on the rainforest for their food, shelter and medicines.

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