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What will be left of the amazon in 2050? Resources  __How many people benefit from the cutting down of the rain forest and how do they benefit from it?__  Loggers benefit from the rain forest because there is heaps of wood for them to cut down,cattle farmers also benefit from it because the rain forest provides lots of land for them and their cows. Farmers also benefit from it as the land is rich with minerals although in a few years the land will be worthless as the minerals haven't been able to renew once the trees have been cut own.

__How much of the amazon has already been cut down,who cut it down,why did they cut it down?__ Since 1970 over 600,000 square kilometers of the amazon rainforest has been destroyed,this is happening because people want to clear the land for cattle pasturing, logging, and lots of poor farmers who need to use the forest land. It is also for road construction and soy bean farming. We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value, over 20 % of it is gone forever. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover around 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

__What resources does the amazon produce for the community and outsiders__ __?__  The rainforest produces lots of wood and also a lot of land for farming,cattle ranching and mining it provides a lot of oils including, palm oil,crude oil and soya oil. The amazon to the indians is also a home. If the Amazon is destroyed they wouldn't have a home. the amazon also provides things that are very important to our health,for example More than 20 percent of the worlds oxygen comes from the amazon ,and it provides Vincristine, which is extracted from the rainforest plant, the periwinkle, is one of the world's most powerful anticancer drugs.

Wildlife  __What species in the rainforest have migrated or become extinct, where did they migrate to and why did they become extinct?__  An average of 35 species of animal becomes extinct everyday including the ones that haven't been discovered yet. Many animals are endangered such as the toucan. Many animals in the Amazon haven't been discovered yet and unfortunately might never will be as because of deforestation become extinct sometimes as easily as the Golden toad which can become extinct in a bulldozers crush. 

<span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 187%;">__Is there wild life that once lived in the amazon that doesn't anymore,what animals and why don't they live there now?__ The Amazon is a large and vast place with hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species. There is still life to be discovered there - and unfortunalty due to many factors, a lot of life is becoming extinct. However, the Amazon hasn't been explored to its full potential, and some animals we believe to be extinct may still be flourishing in smaller numbers, or different areas. With so much life, it is hard to keep track of everything. The Amazon covers about 40 percent of South America. It includes parts of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and other Countries. - Alagoas Curassow (a bird that lived in Brazil now extinct in the wild) - Tomigerus gibberulus (a terrestrial snail from Brazil) Extinct - Red Throated Wood Rail (Bird, found throughout Peru, extinct) - Glaucous Macaw, ( Amazonia area, extinct) It is perhaps thought that the Amazon itself may be 'extinct' or totally wiped out by 2080, if the deforestation rate keeps going the way it has. "An average 35 species of animals are driven into extinction every day in the world's tropical rainforests. The forces of destruction such as logging, oil production, and cattle ranching have all contributed to the loss of millions of acres of tropical rainforest. Animals and people alike lose their homes when trees are cut down. These animals are given no warning to move and most die when the forest is destroyed. When rainforests are destroyed, animals living outside the tropics suffer as well. Songbirds, hummingbirds, warblers and thousands of other North American birds spend their winters in rainforests, returning to the same location year after year. Less return north each spring, as fewer make it through the winter because their habitat has been destroyed.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"> <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"> __What wildlife lives there and is it threatened by the current situation?__ Globally, there has been roughly a 50 percent decline in tropical forest cover since its recent maximum extent. This suggests an 18-20 percent rate of extinction among species. 35 species of animals are driven into extinction everyday. Other species such as the golden toad, whose entire population lives on one mountain in Costa Rica, could become extinct within seconds from a bulldozer's crush. Many of the animals aren't just threatened by global warming and deforestation they are also threatened by the illeagal trade where animals are traded for pets and the fur. <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 272%;">Economy <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"> <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 187%;">__What will happen to the economy if the cutting down of the rainforest is banned and what will happen to the indigenou__ <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">__S__ <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 187%;"> __and ethnical groups that live in the rain forest if it continues to get cut down?__ <span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"> An Estimated 10 million Indians were living in the Amazon 5 centuries ago today there is less then 200,000. Deforestation allows local farmers to grow crops for subsistence farming or in some cases cash crops. Deforestation is also caused by loggers cutting down trees for various uses, many of these product from those trees are exported. Environmentalists are worried about the loss of biodiversity which will result from destruction of the forest, and also about the release of the carbon within the plants, which could accelerate global warming.The use of remote sensing for the conservation of the Amazon is also being used by the indigenous tribes of the basin to protect their tribal lands from commercial interests. Currently, most tribes in the Amazon do not have clearly defined boundaries, which make their territories easy targets for commercial poaching of natural resources.

<span style="color: #1ef61e; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 187%;">__What would happen to the community if they didn't or weren't allowed to cut it down?__ Of the remaining forest people, the Amazon supports the largest populations, though these people too, have been impacted by the modern world. While they still use on the forest for traditional hunting and gathering, most Amerindians, as these people are called, grow crops (like bananas, manioc, and rice), use western goods (like metal pots, pans, and utensils), and make regular trips to towns and cities to bring foods and wares to market. Lots of the community would suffer as many people rely on the deforestation of the Amazon to survive. They would not be able to continue with their traditional hunting if it is destroyed.

<span style="color: #00ff07; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">__How can we save the amazon without effecting the economy?__ Environmentalists have long voiced concern over the vanishing Amazon rainforest, but they haven't been particularly effective at slowing forest loss. In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the region since 2000 and the establishment of more than 100 million hectares of protected areas since 2002, average annual deforestation rates have increased since the 1990s. Conservation efforts alone will not determine the fate of the Amazon or other rainforests. People think that market measures, which value forests for the ecosystem services they provide as well as reward developers for environmental performance, will be the key to saving the Amazon from large-scale destruction. In the end it may be the very markets currently driving deforestation that save forests.