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Deforestation in the Amazon - Coggle Diagram
Deforestation in the Amazon
Facts
large rainforest on earth
18,000,000 hectares lost between 2001-2012
estaimate that 40% will be deforested by 2050
Farming
Commercial Farming
forest is cleared to make space for cattle grazing
cattle range is main cause of deforestation
Soy is farmed up to 250,000km of former forest
Subsistence Farming
forest cleared by small scale farmers who grow food to for themselves
many indigenous people are subsistence farmers
Commercial Logging
amazon is full of hardwood trees eg mahogany
temping for both legal and illegal logging
Other
Mineral extraction
Gold
Iron
Copper
mined and exported to boost economy
Energy Development
Building hydro electric dams floods large areas of forest.
Balbina Dam - flooded 2400 kn of rainforest
Growth Population
populate growth and migration to area outs pressure on amazon rainforest
Road Building
4000 transamazonian highway connects to Peru, columida and Ecuador through the amazon
New roads built for logging have oponed up areas that were previous too har to get to destroying and treating more of the forest.