Agriculture in the Amazon Rainforest Throughout a hundred centuries people have worked hard to sustain productive agriculture and dense human populations. Certain forms of agriculture are possible‚ and should be considered sustainable‚ for the economic development of tropical rainforests. For thousands of years humans have created a disturbance in the rainforests by creating areas of concentrated diversity of species within the landscape. The Indigenous people of the Amazon fostered palm forests
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of the rainforest are important and what they use the rainforest for. Loggers wants to make a living. They rely on the Amazon Rainforest to support their way of life. Logging bring jobs to the poor. Without people being able to log‚ poverty would have grown throughout Latin America. Loggers creates more lands for agriculture and roads. When having more land for agriculture‚ there are more and better abundant production of food and materials. To begin‚ the logger has been in the rainforest since
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The tropical rainforest is a warm biome and ecosystem. An important tropical rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest. The latitude and longitude of the Amazon rainforest is 3.4653° S‚ 62.2159° W. The Amazon rainforest is very hot and moist. The average temperature of the tropical rainforest is 80°F. The average precipitation is 60 to 160 inches that is distributed evenly throughout the year. The tropical rainforest is suitable to many plant and animal life. It contains the most biodiversity
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The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It covers over 1.4 billion acres of land. About two and half million different insects and 40000 plant species live in the Amazon. Location • South of the equator • 3.1600° S and 60.0300° W • Stretches across 9 different countries in South America The abiotic factors in the Amazon Rainforest are important because they affect the plants and animals that live there. Without these factors trees and plants would not be able to
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This area would prove to show agriculturally enhanced land‚ large amounts of precious metals‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ the largest rainforest in the world. Already familiar with South America‚ historical records show that approximately seven million native indians inhabited Brazil‚ but today less than 200‚000 indigenous people survive by fleeing to the Amazon (geographia). These native tribes utilize the seemingly boundless forest‚ living sustainably‚ but the industrialized society of today is
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my Amazon Rainforest Essay‚ I will be choosing the Rubber Tappers. Rubber tappers are a group of people who tap rubber trees for a living. They want to keep rubber tapping but‚ the loggers are cutting the trees down. All they want is protected areas where they can keep rubber tapping. Only the Brazilian government can approve of that. Rubber tappers first came to the Amazon rainforest in the 1870’s. Most rubber tappers live in Brazil‚ near the Amazon rainforest‚ or in the Amazon rainforest. Rubber
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There has been an ongoing debate on how the Amazon Rainforest should be exploited. The Forest is a vast 1.7 billion acre tropical rainforest located in South America. It covers 60% of Northwestern Brazil. Because of many resources the Rainforest possess‚ there are different views on how the forest should be harnessed. For example‚ some believe that the forest’s trees be used for rubber tapping or be extracted from tree sap to improve Brazil’s economy. Loggers believe that they should be able to continue
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1. Why are the rainforests so important to us? What are some of the valuable resources that they provide us with? The rainforest helps reduces the climate changes worldwide. Also there are a ton of species living in all kinds of rainforests. Some valuable resources there that we all we are the type of plants we use for medicine‚ we get food there like bananas‚ we use tress as well‚ and many more but that’s a few to name. 2. What impact does deforestation have on the rainforests? What are some of
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* Located in South America‚ the Amazon Rainforest spans over the Amazon basin of South America‚ stretching over 2.1 million square miles. * The Amazon Rainforest spans over nine countries‚ including Brazil‚ Peru‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Guyana‚ Suriname and French Guiana. * 60% of the Amazon Rainforest is contained within the borders of Brazil. * The map coordinates of the Amazon Rainforest center is 3° 9′ 36″ S‚ 60° 1′ 48″ W. * The region has an average temperature
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The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest on earth. It takes up 40 percent of South American continents and includes 8 parts of South American countries. The Amazon Rainforest has the 2 largest rivers on earth‚ the Amazon River and the Nile River. The Amazon is the world’s largest in terms of discharge. The Amazon River is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of its volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of this river is at least 4‚000 miles‚ which makes
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