Rainforest Destruction

Rainforest Destruction

name = Shiv Sudan
email = buba_stiky@hotmail.com
publish = yes
subject = Science
title = Rainforest Destruction
papers = Introduction

With the increase of rainforest destruction that is taking place, it could take ten years for the rainforests to be destroyed for good.   If we don't restrain or take action towards the destruction there is no telling what will happen to the world.   Most scientists have predicted that at the rate that we are going at there will be no rainforests left by the year 2050.   Long ago, rainforest were capable of reviving themselves until World War Two, because of technological improvements, allowing people to travel and work faster. People were able to destroy the rainforest at an unprecedented pace.   In addition the worlds decisions were made purely on economic grounds, and did not look at the long term affects. There are three main threaths to the rainforest: agriculture, international logging and fuelwood collection.

Agricultural practices take place in many different forms: migrant peasant cultivation, large-scale corporate farming, clandestine narcotics production, or animal husbandry related to cattle. All these forms of agriculture practice in the moist and wet tropics which usually calls for a destructive course. Agriculture is one of the rainforest's main threats since it accounts for a large amount of the distraction.   Cattle ranching is the main factor in the deforestation for agriculture.   Cattle ranching was the major cause of destruction in Brazil accounting for seventy two percent of Brazil's deforestation up to the year 1980. Cattle ranching was also one of major causes of deforestation in Costa Rica and many other amazon countries. Road construction accounted for twenty seven percent of Brazil's deforestation between 1966 to 1975 which all fall under the agriculture category.  

Under the category of international logging you would find, tropical timber extraction.   The companies which deal with timber...