Question

It is difficult to construct roads and railways in the Amazon basin.
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Answer 1

Inthe Amazonbasin, roadsand other formsof infrastructuredevelopmenthave played a massiverole inlogging, deforestation, and agricultural expansion. About 95percent of alldeforestationoccurs within 50 kilometersof highwaysorroadsin the Brazilian Amazon, fragmentationfromroads alsolead to tree mortality, drought, and liana invasion. Major highways into the Amazon beganinBrazilin the 1960’s, new roadsand damscontinuein allcountriesthroughout the region.
Inthe early1960s, the first major highwayinthe Amazon basin was cutfromthe capital Brasiliato Belematthe mouth of the Amazon. Thisroad encouraged settlement into the northof Brazil, althoughitdid notaffectthe central basin. Inthe 1970s, however, deforestationincreased withthe beginningof the Trans-Amazon highway, builteast- west primarilythrough the state of Para. Along with this highwaycameloggers, farmsettlers, and land speculation.