One of the local rubber tree cutters tells “It has been really hard to compete with those big rubber tree companies who just cut down all the trees in the area and only plant rubber trees in the area which gives them such a big amount of rubber liquid, but it also damages the forest so much!” Also, the land in the area are free from the government which destroys even faster, another fact is that the big companies can just call a contract killer to kill the owner of the land so that they can take the land for their own use!
Another big problem in the forest is the mahogany trees which are so popular for making furniture that those furniture companies just cut down a big piece of land, the land can be tens of hectors! The value of mahogany trees is 500pound per cubic metre, and the funny thing is that Britain is the biggest buyer of those trees! In a hector of land, you may find 1 or 2 adult mahogany trees if you are lucky, so you can see how much land do the company need to cut to make so much furniture.
Papers are made of trees; look around where you are if there is any paper? Even this case study you are reading is printed on papers! Someone tracked down a company that works in the forest, for each tree cutter, they will need to cut down 30 trees a day for each person for their wages, that is 300 trees per weeks to be cut down and 50 thousand per year! We now see how big the problem is!
Also, because Amazon is rich in minerals which make mining very popular in the area, especially tin, this is very valuable, 60 thousand dollars per ton of tins! There are hundreds of mines in the Amazon, so we now see how many holes are made in the Amazon that destroys the environment in the rain forest.
Cattle ranching are also a big problem, there is a medium sized farm, and the owner has got around 2000 cattle on a 3000 hectors of land, that is a medium one, what about a big one! Also the soil in the area is very poor which doesn’t give enough nutrition to the cattle, and the cattle ranchers just move the farm to another piece of land and the land been used are just left, because they are not useful any more! This vicious circle makes lots of land becoming like deserts!
There are thousands of problems in the forest; the government of Brazil says the forest will be there for more than 300 years and the local authorities says the forest will disappear in 40 years but all those argues are just useless, because the forest is going to disappear anyway! So what is the point of arguing! Why don’t we just stop the deforestation and take care of it! Just because of the profit they can get so they don’t care about the animals, plants, and people? I think we should stop cutting down trees and start take care of it right now!
