Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract This Policy Movement covers the development and expansion of the Brazilian cattle industry that Brazilian Amazon has helped to massive deforestation over the past 40 years. It will clarify the regional and global impacts of deforestation and provide the Brazilian government with a sustainable management strategy for cattle industry while protecting the future of Amazon. The tropical rainforest ecosystem is a huge reservoir of much more valuable natural resources than the beef produced in Brazil's meadow.

In the Amazon region of Brazil, cattle farms are the main cause of deforestation. This was the fact since at least the 1970s. Government data says that 38% of deforestation between 1966 and 1975 is due to the large breeding of cattle. But today's situation may get worse. According to the International Forestry Research Center (CIFOR) between 1990 and 2001, the import rate of processed meat from Brazil has increased from 40% to 74%, the first time in Brazil the production of beef in Brazil has increased by 80% did. Amazon's main export promotion factors

Historically, breeding of cattle is the greatest driving force for deforestation of the Amazon, and global demand for soybeans has grown in the last few decades. In 2006, due to the rise in political pressures and the bad reputation associated with the destruction of the rainforest, the two Cargill and McDonalds who purchased Brazilian soybeans froze the soybeans purchased from recently harvested tropical rainforests. This type of behavior has resulted in a nationwide outage of soybeans cultivated on the land that has been cut down since 2006 and as a result prevented deforestation in the process. In 2009, the cattle industry is closely related, Brazilian packaging factory and slaughterhouse refused to harvest cattle from meadows within 10 km from the front of deforestation. In spite of these new restrictions, the bovine and soybean industry is doing well in Brazil, its size and scope has expanded in response to the rapidly increasing international demand.

Cow breeding is the main cause of deforestation in Brazil. This is a fact at least since 1970. This is because in Brazil the price and demand of Brazilian beef has been raised by eradication of foot and mouth disease, developers and ranchers can enter the forest areas that can not be accessed by Amazon, the developers cut down the forests It is because it is enough to put it on. Some cows can gain ownership of Amazon land. Another reason for deforestation is logging. Logging is a major industry of tropical rainforest, supplying timber in other countries. This industry is the main cause of population growth in Brazil and other tropical countries. Recording can only be done in certain areas of Brazil, but illegal recording will be done