I believe Indonesia isn’t the only country with deforestation as a major problem. Brazil is a lot like Indonesia and their deforestation problem too. About 60-70% of deforestation in the Amazon results from making room for cattle ranches while the rest mostly results from small-scale subsistence agriculture. I believe that Brazil is facing very similar problems just as Indonesia like the decline of species, tremendous loss of forest coverage, native problems, and pollution too. This directly relates to the theme Human-Environment Interaction because it's about how the people of Brazil and Indonesia interact with their environment. Too bad the interaction with the environment isn't always positive; Indonesia has lost about half of the forest they originally started off with and has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. But one positive thing about these two countries is actually proving to other countries that they shouldn’t follow the same road as they did. They’re proving to them that they should instead promote eco-tourism and other eco-friendly activities and recreations to promote tourism and earn their income that way. These two countries are in a way, a good example to other countries to show that how much harm deforestation has caused them and that they shouldn’t do the same thing as they did.
This reminds me of Liberia and th rest of northwest Africa. Liberia has lost over 65% of its lush rainforest due to rapid deforestation for economic support. Liberia's government will have to find a solution to this major issue if they want to save any of the remaining rainforest and wildlife.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of deforestation in Sri Lanka. Over the past 20 years Sri Lanka has had one of the highest rate of deforestation of primary forests. Affects the people negatively and positively, as it clears land for structures, but also loses biodiversity and the oxygen from the trees.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of other deforestation around the world. The loss of vegetation is wildly increasing as society creates a want for urbanization. The constant cutting down of trees are not only hurting the environment but are messing with the food chain because of the loss of homes and the lack of adaptation that the animals have. This is becoming a really big problem in the Brazilian Amazon. The people are also promoting eco-tourism and eco-friendly activities that can save the animals and the country's land.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the Deforestation in south america. Deforestation in South America is taking place due to the expansion of agriculture for economic development. Expansion of industry, logging, and mining. The effects are however different in different areas.
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