Thursday, March 11, 2010

Destructions on Amazon rainforest (Jia Hui)

What are some of the reasons that cause this to happen?
Let's see:
  • for pastureland by commercial and speculative interests
  • for cattle pastureland.
  •  planted with African savanna grasses for cattle feeding.
  •  cleared for investment purposes
  • cattle ranching
  • subsistence activities of poor farmers who are encouraged to settle on forest lands by government policies
  • fire burning across the Amazon
  • cutting of trees/logging
  • for farming
  • road construction
What can we do to conserve it?


  1. rehabilitation and increase productivity of formerly forested lands
  2. expansion of protection areas
  3. development based on concepts of sustainable use of some exsisting forest
  4. land policy reform
  5. law enforcement
  6. Stop logging,farming and hunting
  7. stop burning down trees or infertile lands that is no use to farmers
The rainforest is for everyone, we should not destroy it as it is one of Mother Nature's greatest work.Let's us protect it together!

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