Research notes

Friday, November 20, 2009
10:05 AM



Pasted from


• Past 40 years close to 20% of the amazon has been deforestized
• The increased rates of deforisation in the brazilian are do to the expansion industrial mining and logging
• The growthin corporate fams, developing new road networks
• The incidence of human- ignited wildfire, population growth
• The indigenous people are losing homes and are disapearing
• Loss of the rain forest is very critical to the biological diversity

• The cut and burned and the politicians are creating permanent settlement, slash and burn plots\
• Cutting has been motivated by searching for gold, coca leaf, and cocaine


• ANIMALS
• Howler monkey
• Golden lion Tamarins
• Three toed sloth
• Poison dart frogs
• Jaguars
• Hyacinth macaw
• Scarlet macaw
• Anaconda snake
• Manatee
• Piranha
• Tapir
• River dolphin
• Vampire bat
• Giant Amazon catfish

• Enviornmental agents have been patroling the amazon stopping illegal clearing
• The amazon rain forest acts as a sink/absorber of carbon dioxide
• But is also a major factor in global warming
• About 75% of Brazil's emissions comes from rain forest clearing
○ Vegetation burns and fallen trees rot
• Water vapor is very important to Brazil's rain forest, because of it's rainy climate
• The less trees you burn, the more money you save/tax break
• The government has confiscated about 230,000 cubic meters (8 million cubic feet) of wood. It has stopped more than a million acres of land has resulted in $1.6 billion in fines
• Sadly the area is to big to really take control over the area
• In Novo Progresso, the country the size of Maryland with 14,800 square miles and 21,500 residents, most of them make a living off of jungle clearing.
○ But they have recently dropped off the list of top deforesters
• There has been a decline in prices for cattle, soy, and timber.
• The destruction will go back to it's old ways once the profits again outweigh the risk of getting caught
• 75% is untouched rain forest
• Angry mobs have trashed agents field offices and physically run out other, none have been killed
• Policing along can not stop
• some logger that have been caught already, just move to regions were it is less patroled and less re-enforced


http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/agarman/jaguar.htm
http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/deforestation.htm
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://assets.panda.org/img/deforestationamazonas_markedwards16956_288419.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_forests/deforestation/&usg=__NNV6HPi1nqgi-hey7wBj-1aKcok=&h=361&w=700&sz=27&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=7iCPTQqIuOjSDM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Beffect%2Bon%2Banimals%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bamazon%2Bdeforestation%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rlz%3D1T4GPEA_enUS342US342%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
http://deforestationintheamazon.wordpress.com/facts/
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/forests-worldwide/the-amazon-rainforest/solutions-to-amazon-deforestat