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Illegal logging was cited as a cause by the Brazilian environment minister, while critics highlighted the expansion of agriculture as a factor encroaching on the rainforest. [14] Researchers warn that the forest may reach a tipping point where it cannot generate sufficient rainfall to sustain itself. [ 15 ]
Logging in the Amazon, in theory, is controlled and only strictly licensed individuals are allowed to harvest the trees in selected areas. In practice, illegal logging is widespread in Brazil. [52] [53] Up to 60 to 80 percent of all logging in Brazil is estimated to be illegal, with 70% of the timber cut wasted in the mills. [54]
The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. ... illegal logging; mining; and oil drilling, with effects on water ...
To combat ongoing destruction in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil announced a plan Tuesday to dramatically expand selective logging to an area the size of Costa Rica over the next two years. In ...
Over the last decades illegal logging has become a serious problem in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2012 the World Bank estimated that 80% of Peru's timber exports are illegally harvested. [ 6 ] This uncontrolled deforestation could negatively affect the habitats of indigenous tribes, the Peruvian biodiversity and contribute to climate change .
Mashco Piro are increasingly venturing out of their rainforest in search of food, driven by expanding logging activities Rare new pictures show uncontacted Amazon tribe threatened by loggers Skip ...
Forest fragmentation is also driven as a result of high impact logging a forest. Logging in the Brazilian Amazon results in forest fragmentation as new areas of forests are produced for either clear cutting or selective logging. [11] Almost half of the selective logging operations in the Amazon were illegal during the early 2000s.
An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation in the region, according to satellite ...