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tropical rainforests - Coggle Diagram

- - - - growing crops to feed your family
      - sometimes they're lucky and have some leftovers to sell
      - enough to survive
    - - using farmland for cattle for beef
      - growing soy which is food for the cattle in HICs
      - brazil made £5.5 billion from trading cattle and is the largest exporter of beef in the world
    - - trees from the rainforest is NOT USED FOR PAPER as the wood is too hard
      - the trees are hardwood which is good for building and furniture
    - - trans amazon highways
      - opening up the rainforest for development (getting big trucks in and out)
    - - there are valuable minerals under the rainforest like iron and aluminum
      - in Peru one mine alone employs 3000 people
        
        this is good because it is giving people an income so they are able to pay taxes improving their quality of life
    - - HEP - hydro electric power
      - 48 dams on the Amazon river already
        
        a further 150 planned
      - they are made to provide cheap and carbon dioxide free electricity
        
        this is for people at home and business
    - - deforesting land for miners loggers and farmers to live
      - to stop them moving to crowed places like Rio
  - - - positive
        
        hydroelectric power dams
        
        gives you cheap energy without letting off carbon dioxide
      - negative
        
        no leaflitter giving nutrients to the soil
        
        soil is exposed so it easily erodes
        
        climate change
        
        cutting down trees
        
        getting rid of a carbon sink
        
        burning trees lets of co2
    - - positive
        
        giving people in poverty jobs so they can get an income and pay taxes improving their quality of life
        
        wealth
        
        march 2018 BRazil exported $600 million of beef
      - negative
        
        the companies keep most of their profits
        
        so people are getting rich off of destroying the rainforests
    - - positive
        
        they are giving homes for miners loggers and farmers to live
      - negative
        
        tribes are being forced to move to urban areas
        
        they don't have a modern way of life so this could make them really confused
        
        loss of potential medicines and cures
  - - - they preserve the rainforest in conservation areas like national parks or nature reserves
    - - they promote the rainforest and gather small groups of people to be shown around by the locals
    - - they make a national agreements that helps to protect the rainforest
      - The forest stewardship council (FSC) is an international organisation that promotes sustainable forestry
    - - Instead of cutting trees down and it squashing all the smaller trees