The Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest

Reasons for deforestation of the Amazon rainforest Amazon rainforests span several border of South America, most of which are in Brazil. It covers more than 35.62 million acres and is the world's largest. However, on a global scale, annual loss of deforestation due to deforestation is over 138,600 acres, Brazil alone has 50,000 acres (Holdsforth), the world's rainforests are rapidly disappearing. There are three main reasons for deforestation in the Amazon. Forest loss, fragmentation, and marginal impact.

Deforestation of all tropical rainforests is a big problem. Remove natural forests through logging and incineration. The reason for deforestation is that people cut down trees for timber, agricultural space and urban space. Two reasons for deforestation are forest conversion and deforestation. Forest conversion means any other land use, including pulp, palm, soybean plantation, as well as roads and other infrastructure. Forest deterioration is caused by fire, illegal and unsustainable logging, logging, and climate change. Each year 12 to 15 million hectares of forests suffer losses, accounting for 15% of the total greenhouse gas emissions. Tropical forests are the most common area of ​​deforestation and have more than 21 billion tons of carbon. Forest logging has many effects, such as reduced biodiversity, emissions of greenhouse gas emissions, turbulence in the water cycle, increased soil erosion, and livelihood destruction.

Forest logging means loss of forest habitat due to natural causes or artificial causes. Forest fires such as forest fires, forest fires, volcanic eruptions and glacier effects are also related to the causes of human-related deforestation, such as mining, logging and farming by agricultural deforestation. 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

Forest destruction is of particular concern in tropical rain forests, a habitat for many biodiversity in the world. For example, about 17% of the Amazon forest has been lost in the past 50 years. This is mainly due to the conversion from pasture to cattle meadow. Forest logging in this area is particularly prevalent in areas with high population near roads and rivers, but even if you find a distant tree, you will find valuable roots, gold and oil. WWF has been working on forest protection for more than 50 years. WWF is committed to protected area management and sustainable forest management and in collaboration with governments, businesses, communities and other stakeholders to promote responsible forest management practice certification, fight against illegal logging, reform of trade policy and We are protecting forest areas