Why the Rainforest of the World Should Be Protected?
The rain forest is possibly the most diverse environment in the world it contains 90% of the world animal and plant life and has weather that changes rapidly. But every minute acres of this forest are being cut down.
Loggers are mainly after the trees like mahogany, which sell for more money, but in this process they cut down and destroy masses of other plant life. They have tried to make logging more economic by using selective logging which is searching the forest for these good trees then cutting the specific trees down and dragging them out of the forest, but even this is damaging because to get the trees out they need to bulldoze a path in and out and often destroy more trees than they are selling. In this essay I am going to express my views on deforestation.
The Amazon rainforest is about the size of Europe and every day roughly 51.8 square kilometres are cut down. So that’s 18,900 square km a year and that’s a lot. One of the main reasons for deforestation is the actions of Brazil, in the 1970 – 80’s Brazil borrowed a large sum of money from MEDCs to develop their country they now owe these MEDCs £50 billion a year and a further £15 million interest every day. So to pay this back they need to use their main resource, which is their forest and the easiest way to get money out of it, is logging. A single mahogany tree is worth £35,000 so they will need to get a lot to pay back the debt but for every mahogany tree that is cut down an average of 30 other trees are cut down. So for brazil to earn £1 million they need to cut down about 888 trees and to pay back their daily interest they need to cut down 13,320 trees a day, but how many trees will they need to cut down to make the £50 billion they owe a year.
An alternative to logging that still uses the forest is tourism they could take people for hikes through the rainforest and camp in it, they could teach people about different animals and show them species that they may not have seen before. They could
Loggers are mainly after the trees like mahogany, which sell for more money, but in this process they cut down and destroy masses of other plant life. They have tried to make logging more economic by using selective logging which is searching the forest for these good trees then cutting the specific trees down and dragging them out of the forest, but even this is damaging because to get the trees out they need to bulldoze a path in and out and often destroy more trees than they are selling. In this essay I am going to express my views on deforestation.
The Amazon rainforest is about the size of Europe and every day roughly 51.8 square kilometres are cut down. So that’s 18,900 square km a year and that’s a lot. One of the main reasons for deforestation is the actions of Brazil, in the 1970 – 80’s Brazil borrowed a large sum of money from MEDCs to develop their country they now owe these MEDCs £50 billion a year and a further £15 million interest every day. So to pay this back they need to use their main resource, which is their forest and the easiest way to get money out of it, is logging. A single mahogany tree is worth £35,000 so they will need to get a lot to pay back the debt but for every mahogany tree that is cut down an average of 30 other trees are cut down. So for brazil to earn £1 million they need to cut down about 888 trees and to pay back their daily interest they need to cut down 13,320 trees a day, but how many trees will they need to cut down to make the £50 billion they owe a year.
An alternative to logging that still uses the forest is tourism they could take people for hikes through the rainforest and camp in it, they could teach people about different animals and show them species that they may not have seen before. They could