Stop The Deforestation

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Term Paper Title	Stop The Deforestation
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Stop The Deforestation

"This land is where we know where to find all that it provides for us--food
from hunting and fishing, and farms, building and tool materials,
medicines.  This land keeps us together within its mountains; we come to
understand that we are not just a few people or separate villages, but one
people belonging to a homeland" (Colins 32).  The "homeland" is the Upper
Mazaruni District of Guyana, a region in the Amazon rain forest where the
Akawaio Indians make their home (32).  The vast rain forest, often
regarded as just a mass of trees and exotic species, is to many indigenous
people a home.  This home is being destroyed as miners, loggers, and
developers move in on the cultures of these people to strip away their
resources and complicate the peaceful, simple lives of these primitive
tribes.  However, the tribes are not the only ones who lose in this
situtation.  If rain forest invasion continues, mankind as a whole will lose a
valuable treasure:  the knowledge of these people in utilizing the resources
and plants of the forest for food, building, and medicine.  To prevent this
loss, the governments of the countries housing the rain forests should
provide some protection for the forest and its inhabitants through
legislation, programs.  Also, environmentalists should pursue educating
the tribes in managing thier resources for pragmatic, long-term profit
through conservation.
     Although hard to believe, the environmental problems of today
started a long time before electricty was invented, before automobilies
littered the highways, and before industries dotted the countryside.  From
ancient times to the Industrial Revolution, humans began to change the
face of the earth.  As populations increased and technology improved and
expanded, more significant and widespread problems arose.  "Today,
unprecedented demands on the environment from a rapidly expanding
human population and from advancing technology are causing a continuing
and acelerating decline in the quality of the environment and its ability to
sustain life" (Ehrlich 98).  Increasing numbers of humans are intruding on
remaining wild land-even in those areas once considered relatively safe
from exploitation.  Tropical forests, especially in southest Asia and the
Amazon River Basin, are being destroyed at an alarming rate for timber,
conversion to crop and grazing lands, pine plantations, and settlements.
According to researcher Howard Facklam, "It was estimated at one point in
the ...

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