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Every year gigantic areas of the Amazon are cut down or burned to
make way for agriculture. Small farmers do it to provide food for an
impoverished people whilst large companies do it on a much larger
scale. Logging also plays a huge part on a small scale locals use the
wood to build and to use as fuel whilst large companies again do the
same on a much larger scale.
Local use of the forest doesn't have much impact and the clearer
areas grow back quickly once left but the large scale destruction by
big corporations has a lasting effect in permanently reducing the
forest in size and splitting it in to smaller and smaller remnants. This
causes animal and plant species that can never be brought back to
become extinct as their habitat changes or is destroyed. The
massive demands these companies make mean that the land is
quickly depleted and little can grow or recover on this land. Humans
can have a devastating effect on the environment.
The homes of the tribal people who live there will also be lost,
some previously unknown tribes. People who have had no contact
with the modern world were recently seen shooting arrows at a
plane that went overhead, they too will be affected and could loose
their home and way of life.
Finally we will loose one of the worlds most spectacular natural
wonders leaving the world a poorer place for our descendants if
they manage to survive in the changed planet we leave behind.
The future is hard to predict but one thing is certain we must stop
deforestation now before it is too late. Because if we don't then we
know the consequences will be devastating. It is hard to
appreciate what we have until we loose it and our regret may come
too late.
Every second the size of two football pitches are being destroyed in the
Amazon Rainforest, well.
Well, we can create petitions, join petitions, make protests, make a rally.
But when?..........