| One of the largest problems with
stopping this destruction of the rainforest is that it is not being done by just one group
of people. It's not just the loggers trying to make a buck off lumber. They take wood
considered to be good in other countries and ship them. Replanting is not always an option
they can take, though some have grand dreams about shipping other woods and replanting
better to preserve the stock. Without the replantation, the trees become rarer and rarer
until they are impossible to find. If that day comes, we will all be in trouble.
The Brazilian government encouraged poor people to go into the rainforest, settle on new
land, and paid them to do it. They are not any richer as a result, but remain out there.
There isn't always enough land to go around and trouble arises when they dispute over land
with the Amazonians.
Ranchers clear land for cattle,
destroying vast areas for their cattle. The land they build off of is poor without the
organic fertilizer created by the rainforest and the ranchers usually must move on.
There is a need for better
education in the Amazon, as most don't understand why their crops fail soon after the land
is cleared, but there is also a need to stop the destruction as soon we can. |