https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd L5 A en-us 2017-03-19 20:12:23 UTC 2023-06-15 00:47:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161769880 One of the causes of deforestation is that tress are being moved due to animal grazing. Animals such as cows are placed there to graze because there is more space provided in the rainforest. That way, more cows can be there and therefore more beef would be provided giving the companies more money. If the companies were to set their animals to graze in a place such as the UK, it is a relatively small space since lots of it is used for habitation and as a result there would be less animals. In the end, it would be more advantageous for a company to let their animals graze in a more open space.]]> 2017-03-22 11:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161769880 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770282 The forest is being cleared because people clear the forest for plantations for example (palm oil) ]]> 2017-03-22 11:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770282 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770308 The Amazon is being destroyed for farming and plantations such as palm oil ]]> 2017-03-22 11:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770308 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770486 The forest is being cleared for paper]]> 2017-03-22 11:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770486 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770518 There is high demand for things like beef, so there need to be a lot of cows. Lots of land in the rainforest is being cleared to make way for farms so that the animals have space to graze. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770518 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770904 The Amazon is being cleared for mining metals such as aluminium. This is in high demand in our modern world. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770904 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770919 The Amazon is being cleared for Bauxite mines. Bauxite is a main component for Aluminium and Aluminium is used for many everyday items, eg: cans, foils etc.]]> 2017-03-22 11:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770919 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770923 Trees are being cut down for mining copper (bauxite)]]> 2017-03-22 11:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770923 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770938 A reason for deforestation is for bauxite. This is used in tin and can which is something we use everyday. 

]]> 2017-03-22 11:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770938 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770940 Cleared for roads and transportation:
Large sections of forest cleared for highways to transport goods

]]> 2017-03-22 11:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161770940 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771035 The Amazon is being cleared for paper. The rainforest trees are being cleared and replaced with plantation trees (which produce a pulp which is good for making paper). This is killing all of the other species causing a loss of biodiversity in the rainforest.  This is happening a lot in Jari due to the high demand for paper around the world. Every year we use around 85 billion kilograms of paper, which means that land is needed for plantation trees.]]> 2017-03-22 11:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771035 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771113 Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966-1975 to large-scale cattle ranching. Today the figure in Brazil is closer to 70 percent.26 Jan 2017]]> 2017-03-22 11:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771113 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771213 Commercial logging ]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771213 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771226 The Amazon is being destroyed for settlement as the population of Brazil expands ]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771226 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771328 Our population is growing, therefore more houses are needed so areas in the rainforests are being cleared to make way for settlements and places for people to live. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771328 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771329 The Amazon is being cleared for resources such as paper. By cutting down trees there are plenty of sources for paper to be created. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771329 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771348 Land cleared for ranches and plantations to grow things in bulk]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771348 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771376 Grazing animals for  beef is a huge reason for deforestation because everyone wants it we consume loads]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771376 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771419 Iron Ore mines]]> 2017-03-22 11:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771419 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771508 The result of this shift is forests in the Amazon were cleared faster than ever before in the late 1970s through the mid 2000s. Vast areas of rainforest were felled for cattle pasture and soy farms, drowned for dams, dug up for minerals, and bulldozed for towns and colonization projects. At the same time, the proliferation of roads opened previously inaccessible forests to settlement by poor farmers, illegal logging, and land speculators. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771508 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771529 We are destroying the Amazon for medicines. As 25% of our modern medicines originate from the rainforest ]]> 2017-03-22 11:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771529 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771550 Population growth needs more land to house people on so large sections of rainforest are cleared]]> 2017-03-22 11:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771550 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771680 Peru's rate of forest loss has been trending upward over the past decade. Reasons for the rise include the development and completion of the Transoceanic highway, which connects Pacific ports to the heart of the Amazon; a surge in gold mining in Madre de Dios and other regions along the eastern slope of the Andes; and increased logging and hydrocarbon development. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771680 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771690 We need a lot of resources like timber for furniture and pulp for paper manufacturing. The rainforests are even being cleared for mining now as rescohrces like bauxite which is needed for aluminium production is in high demand. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771690 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771766 Some causes are To make more land available for housing and urbanization
To harvest timber to create commercial items such as paper, furniture and homes 
To create ingredients that are highly prized consumer items, such as the oil from palm trees
To create room for cattle ranching ]]> 2017-03-22 11:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771766 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771817 Ecuador's rate of forest loss in the Amazon increased between 2001 and 2012. One of the top concern for environmentalists is the government's decision to open Yasuni National Park for o]]> 2017-03-22 11:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771817 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771855 129.5 pounds of beef every year]]> 2017-03-22 11:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771855 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771991
Road construction can lead to deforestation by providing an entryway to previously remote land. The 5,404-km Interoceanic Highway, which runs from Brazil to Peru, is a concern for conservationists as the road cuts a strip through the biodiverse Amazon rainforest. The road expansions often lead to logging and illegal logging, where opportunists slash down trees without permission from authorities. The cleared land then attracts an influx of settlers and disturbs the peace that once reigned the small villages.]]> 2017-03-22 11:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161771991 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772062 Plantation crops ]]> 2017-03-22 11:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772062 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772137
Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966-1975 to large-scale cattle ranching. Today the figure in Brazil is closer to 70 percent. Most of the beef is destined for urban markets, whereas leather and other cattle products are primarily for export markets. 

]]> 2017-03-22 11:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772137 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772162 Forest clearing for livestock ranching is another contributor of deforestation. Since 1990, Brazil, a top exporter of beef, has lost an area of forest that is three-fourths the size of Texas. A strong global demand for beef, supported by governments such as in Brazil, is expanding this kind of deforestation.]]> 2017-03-22 11:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772162 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772179 2017-03-22 11:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772179 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772234 The conversion of forests into agricultural plantations is a major cause of deforestation. The increase in global demand for commodities, such as palm oil and soybeans, are driving industrial-scale producers to clear forests at an alarming rate.14 Aug 2013

]]> 2017-03-22 11:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772234 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772261 But production of beef, leather and other cattle products isn't the only reason for converting rainforest into artificial grasslands. In a region where land prices are appreciating quickly, cattle ranching is used as a vehicle for land speculation, much of which is illegal. Forestland has little value—but cleared pastureland can be used to produce cattle or sold to large-scale farmers, including soy planters. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772261 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772370 The rainforests are also being cleared for palm oil production and large plantations take up a lot of space, which is created by clearing the rainforest by using techniques such as slash and burn, where they start a controlled fire, ]]> 2017-03-22 11:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772370 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772398 Unsustainable timber harvesting]]> 2017-03-22 11:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772398 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772430
In theory, logging in the Amazon is controlled by strict licensing which allows timber to be harvested only in designated areas, but in practice, illegal logging remains widespread in Brazil and Peru. ]]> 2017-03-22 11:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772430 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772666 The rainforest is being destroyed for colonisation ]]> 2017-03-22 11:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772666 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772783 Deforestation jumped 16 percent in the Brazilian Amazon for the year ended July 31, 2015, but still remained well below historical levels.]]> 2017-03-22 11:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772783 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772785
Cultivations and livestock farming
We should consider, infact, that with regards to the substitution of forest areas with cultivations and livestock farms, the impact is much higher because after the extraction of the most precious trees which are destined for timber commercialization, forests are set on fire causing a great impact on local animals and plants. The most disastrous year for the Amazon forest has been 1991 when over 50,000 fires where registered by aerial views or satellite images.
Timber extraction 
Centuries-old trees are cut down to make timber or cellulose for the furniture or paper industry. Any system employed for wood cutting causes serious damage to the ecosystem, and these damages are amplified by construction of roads required for vehicles and to trasport chopped timber to its destination. For this reason, also many other economically unattractive trees which have an important biological and ecological value are are cut down.
Firewood collection 
This activity is undertaken especially by native populations, which due to recent population growth, must provide energy sources for their survival. This phenomenon adds to large-scale industrial timber exploitation.
Road Construction 
Besides the construction of roads to transport timber, also dam construction and industrial exploitation of mines contribute to massive deforestation

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The causes of deforestation]]> 2017-03-22 11:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772785 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772798 2017-03-22 11:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772798 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772901 Forest loss amounted to 5,831 square kilometers, an area half the size of Los Angeles.]]> 2017-03-22 11:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161772901 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773075 The conversion of forests into agricultural plantations is a major cause of deforestation.  The increase in global demand for commodities, such as palm oil and soybeans, are driving industrial-scale producers to clear forests at an alarming rate. Indonesia, the largest producer of palm oil, was named the “Fastest Forest Destroyer,” in the 2008 Guinness World Records. Even when efforts are made to replenish barren plantations, the depleted soil is not able to produce the same biodiversity it once was.]]> 2017-03-22 11:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773075 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773077 Our planet once housed an estimated maximum of 15 million people in prehistory. It now sustains a whopping 7 billion and counting. With overpopulation, there is an increase in global needs and wants, leading to expansion and deforestation. The planet’s forests are being devastated at an even rate with population growth.]]> 2017-03-22 11:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773077 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773109 The need for bauxite]]> 2017-03-22 11:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773109 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773127 Road construction can lead to deforestation by providing an entryway to previously remote land. The 5,404-km Interoceanic Highway, which runs from Brazil to Peru, is a concern for conservationists as the road cuts a strip through the biodiverse Amazon rainforest. The road expansions often lead to logging and illegal logging, where opportunists slash down trees without permission from authorities. The cleared land then attracts an influx of settlers and disturbs the peace that once reigned the small villages.]]> 2017-03-22 11:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773127 https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773203 2017-03-22 11:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cgilbert12/67j6aerw21nd/wish/161773203