Threats
• trees are being brought down for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items.
• Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity.
• as the paper industry gets bigger the demand for tress is huge.
• The cattle industry used to clear ranch land.
• Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for cropland.
• Subsistence farmers slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room for crops and grazing lands.
• Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines.
• Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads.
• Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest.
Solutions
• Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them would save millions of acres of rain forest every year.
• Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation.
• Encouraging people who live near rain forests to harvest its bounty (nuts, fruits, medicines) rather than clear-cutting it for farmland would save million of acres.
• Government moratoriums on road building and large infrastructure projects in the rain forest would save many acres.
• trees are being brought down for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items.
• Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity.
• as the paper industry gets bigger the demand for tress is huge.
• The cattle industry used to clear ranch land.
• Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for cropland.
• Subsistence farmers slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room for crops and grazing lands.
• Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines.
• Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads.
• Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest.
Solutions
• Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them would save millions of acres of rain forest every year.
• Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation.
• Encouraging people who live near rain forests to harvest its bounty (nuts, fruits, medicines) rather than clear-cutting it for farmland would save million of acres.
• Government moratoriums on road building and large infrastructure projects in the rain forest would save many acres.