ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The impacts of deforestation include loss of biodiversity, reduced water cycling (and rainfall), and contributions to global warming. Strategies to slow deforestation include repression through licensing procedures, monitoring, and fines.
Detailed explanation-3: -Industrial development has caused degradation of forests through pollution, over-exploitation, encroachments etc. Rainforests have decreased in size primarily due to deforestation.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Amazonia, deforestation is killing Indigenous people by destroying the land they depend on for their survival. When their land is stolen, people are forced from their forest homes. They’re reduced from self-sufficiency to living on the sides of roads and/or depending on government handouts.