Forest Management

Both the local people of Amazonian and the government of that area play a part in managing the forest. In the late 1970’s, IBAMA- Brazil’s Environment Agency was set up to try and prevent the burning of the rainforest. Millions of acres were being burnt; in 1987 alone 20 million acres. Local farmers were paid to start fires, to provide new land for expansion. This may have seemed a good approach at first, as more capital …

…The tropical ecosystem, has important functions in controlling the earth’s climate, it’s enormous gene pool provides a great prospective to be used for medicine and other medical sciences. Although with the disparaging management decisions, and the ongoing conflict between destroying the rainforest to pay of debts and make more money, it is apparent that positive management decisions need to be enforced soon. As its loss would cause a severe blow to the planet.