The problems and what the government can do to solve them

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Brazilian Problems with the Amazon

• The problems and what the government can do to
  solve them

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Some of the many things that Brazil is doing to
their Rainforest

• Cattle and ranching
• poor quality of the rain forest
• Logging of the Amazon
• Hydro-electric dams

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The Amazon

• The Amazon should look like these pictures but
  because of logging, cattle ranching,
  hydro-electric dams and numerous other ways of
  destruction.

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What the Amazon Looks like now

• This is what happens when ranchers need more land
  or farmers need more land. This is really not
  fair to the environment and the rest of the world.

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Ranching

• Brazilian ranching accounts for 80 of forest
  destruction. Ranchers burn huge amounts of forest
  so that their cows can graze on ferns and other
  plants that grow there

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• The massive amounts of ranching are one of the
  HUGE problems of the forest. You would think that
  the forestry company does even more clearing than
  ranching, but it is not so. As mentioned earlier,
  ranching takes out 80 of the clearing. When the
  ranchers started moving into the interior, the
  government actually encouraged it, and sold the
  land for about 25 cents per hectare.

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Rain Forest Land Quality...to be bluntsucks...

• Another one of the major problems of Brazil and
  the forest, is this. The farmers need land. They
  clear some rain forest land. They find out it is
  not very fertile, and needs intense fertilizing
  after the first few years. So, after it is
  practically rendered useless, the go out and
  clear some more land. And then the whole cycle
  starts again.

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Loggingand other various destruction of trees

• Logging is once again another one of the major
  problems of destruction in the rain forest.
  Before the highways were built, this placed was
  not accessible for logging because river access
  to the sawmills was not possible.

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Hydro-electricitycostlier than it needs to be?

• Damming the rivers of the rain forest is another
  problemsure they provide electricity for the
  places of Brazil, but is it really worth the
  thousands of hectares worth of damage and
  destruction to the rain forest?

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Problems do have Solutionsright?!?

• All problems have to have solutions, or else our
  world would be an even bigger problem than it
  already is. In the next few slides, there are
  going to be suggestions as to how these problems
  can be either reduced, or eliminated.

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Ranching

• For the ranching business, why continue to
  destroy the rain forest? Why not move in to the
  interior plains. The soil is better there, and
  there are more plains then there are rainforest,
  and also, the rainforest provides the world with
  a lot of its oxygen.

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Farming And The Bad Land Quality

• Once again, the land of the rain forest is not
  good for these people, and they needlessly
  destroy it because the soil depletes to fast.
  These farmers could do the same as the ranchers,
  move to the interior, and use the more fertile
  land there.

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Logging, Cut Down On The Problem

• Why do they need to do so much clear cutting? All
  they need to do instead of chopping down
  everything, and then choosing what they want.
  When instead, you could prune the trees you
  already have for firewood, and have more left
  over. You can also do select cutting in the
  forest. Cut down only the trees you need, and not
  everything.

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Hydro-Electric Power Dousing Spirits

• A multi-use idea for solving this wet problem, is
  to make a large artificial lake in the interior
  plainsnot only could this lake be used for
  electricity, but it could then also be used as an
  irrigation source for the semi-arid areas.

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And there you have it folks...

• Yes, Brazil is having problems, yes they can be
  solved. Yes, we can help no really, I'm serious,
  you can. I dont know how, but you can.

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It SHOULD be like this...