Why rainforest are depleting in amazon basin?
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Hi friend,
Depletion of rain forests causes more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, resulting in climate change. If the greenhouse effect continues to increase, the resulting changes in climate can lead to changes in the habitats of animals around the world. This would increase the risk of endangered animal species worldwide.
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For most of human history, deforestation in the Amazon was primarily the product of subsistence farmers who cut down trees to produce crops for their families and local consumption. But in the later part of the 20th century, that began to change, with an increasing proportion of deforestation driven by industrial activities and large-scale agriculture. By the 2000s more than three-quarters of forest clearing in the Amazon was for cattle-ranching.
The result of this shift is forests in the Amazon were cleared faster than ever before in the late 1970s through the mid 2000s. Vast areas of rainforest were felled for cattle pasture and soy farms, drowned for dams, dug up for minerals, and bulldozed for towns and colonization projects. At the same time, the proliferation of roads opened previously inaccessible forests to settlement by poor farmers, illegal logging, and land speculators.
The result of this shift is forests in the Amazon were cleared faster than ever before in the late 1970s through the mid 2000s. Vast areas of rainforest were felled for cattle pasture and soy farms, drowned for dams, dug up for minerals, and bulldozed for towns and colonization projects. At the same time, the proliferation of roads opened previously inaccessible forests to settlement by poor farmers, illegal logging, and land speculators.
rony88:
While Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana aren't part of the Amazon River basin, their forests are often lumped in as part of the Amazon rainforest.Forest loss in the three countries has sharply increased in recent years
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