The Amazon rain forest produces about 60 percent. global oxygen production necessary for the life of many different life forms on Earth, including humans and animals.
However, for several dozen years, Amazonia has been successively torn from tree stands. There are many known cases of killing indigenous peoples, Native Americans who try to protect the Amazon by devastation.
Fenced areas of the forest are quickly cut down, where the soil after tree felling is quickly eroded and reclamation of the degraded ecosystem is very difficult and in many areas impossible.
The Amazon rainforest is a globally unique ecosystem in which millions of different species of flora and fauna, unknown, not found in other regions of the world, live in natural biological balance.
these ecosystems were created for millions of years, they are unique, one of the greatest biologically treasurers of planet Earth, and man very quickly destroys this unique, species-rich ecosystem.
Progressing fast felling of trees and destruction are basically irreversible. Sometimes to cut a unique specimen of a tree, which grows for 100, 200 and more years, cutting machines, sawmill destroy many other trees only for the purpose of forming an access road for tartar machines to a specific, large, cut tree.
This is the economy of devastation and destruction of unique natural resources, species-rich ecosystems.
Paradoxically, man is responsible for this in the era of the 21st century civilization, it is very sad.
How to solve this problem, to change the economy of devastation into an ecological economy and to protect the unique resources of Amazonian ecosystems?
Time passes, and successively there is less and less time to solve this problem and find a way out of this patency sytauacji, the vicious circle of industrial exploitation, including the devastation of unique forest resources, rich in millions of species of natural Amazonian ecosystems.
If in the 21st century this problem is not effectively solved, subsequent generations of people will have much bigger problems in the matter of existence and life on Earth.
If in the 21st century mankind does not stop the progressing greenhouse effect on Earth and the devastating, predatory economy of forest clearing of the Amazon rainforest, then humanity in the XXII century will no longer have the conditions possible to survive on Earth.
Do you agree with my opinion on this matter?
In view of the above, I am asking you the following question:
Still after many years, the question is: What institutional and social measures should be used to effectively protect the tropical Amazon forest before its devastation?
Please, answer, comments.
Thank you very much
Best wishes
A broad answer to a broad question. Tropical forest, Amazonia included are declining (Gils & Loza 2006), but the larger temperate plus boreal forest are expanding at about the same rate (Gils et al. 2008). That answers part of the question, although not the biodiversity component. These trends suggest part of their long term reversal. Transformation of an agrarian society (in terms of the proportion of the population depending on farming) to an industrial/service society releases farmland for spontaneous reforestation. An essential element of that transformation is land tenure reform as indicated both for the tropics (Gils & Loza) as well as for the temperate zone (Gils et al 2014). A related societal component working at the midterm is (tertiary) education, particularly of the female half of the population (Gils & Baig 1992).What definitely does not work is prohibition of logging and/or farming in large, poor, peripheral areas or establishment of large state protected areas (cf. Gils & Loza). In the relative short term, design of road network alignment and regulation of the mining industry (cf. Gils & Loza) aimed forest conservation seems feasible.
A broad answer to a broad question. Tropical forest, Amazonia included are declining (Gils & Loza 2006), but the larger temperate plus boreal forest are expanding at about the same rate (Gils et al. 2008). That answers part of the question, although not the biodiversity component. These trends suggest part of their long term reversal. Transformation of an agrarian society (in terms of the proportion of the population depending on farming) to an industrial/service society releases farmland for spontaneous reforestation. An essential element of that transformation is land tenure reform as indicated both for the tropics (Gils & Loza) as well as for the temperate zone (Gils et al 2014). A related societal component working at the midterm is (tertiary) education, particularly of the female half of the population (Gils & Baig 1992).What definitely does not work is prohibition of logging and/or farming in large, poor, peripheral areas or establishment of large state protected areas (cf. Gils & Loza). In the relative short term, design of road network alignment and regulation of the mining industry (cf. Gils & Loza) aimed forest conservation seems feasible.
Dear Darius,
to protect the Amazon of humans is impossible, as the boreal forest too !!!
We can stopped some human activity, but not to change the economy of deforestation.
In Discussion you can try to propose:
- création of many stations (zones) of Unic Natural réserve and made long monitoring of plant/animal/human population, but not the "large state protected areas" (cf. Gils & Loza).
- in theoretic results, the industry development can be stopped, if the analyse of flora and faune not been made. It not existe the study ofAmazon ...
- The ecological education of people and
- The organisation of economy for Amazon people ...
etc
Hallo Darius,
In the first place to introduce the ecological education and stopped the selecte the humans activity!
Edeltrauda
A strong education can play a critical role in protecting world's biomes and biodiversity. It should be accompanied by spirituality. Cf.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230321458_29
Strong education entails inclusion of public awareness and realization. Among outcomes of such measures, there should be high adoption rates of stewardship.
In the context of the progressive warming of the Earth's climate, the following question is of particular importance:
What do you think is the importance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems?
Biodiversity is diverse in virtually unlimited degree, which results from the essence of processes of evolution of species, filet lines and entire ecosystems. It is thanks to the millions of years of evolutionary processes on Earth that there are so many different natural and highly diverse ecosystems in which different species of flora, fauna, fungi and microorganisms adapt to life in different and very diverse geographical and climatic environments.
The largest biodiversity of ecosystems and species functions in natural environmental environments in which ecosystems have evolved without human impact through millions of years of climatic and geographical conditions enabling the development of various life forms. These types of high biodiversity sites can be found in unpolluted rainforest ecosystems in tropical forests, in temperate climates and in coral reefs.
Unfortunately, human civilization activity contributes to the successive and accelerating process of biodiversity reduction by dying out species of living organisms. The areas of natural natural ecosystems are decreasing, including those in which the greatest biodiversity is diagnosed, such as the rainforests of the Amazon. The protection of naturalistic ecosystems and thus the protection of the planet's biodiversity is the most important challenge for mankind in the 21st century.
Do you agree with my opinion on this matter?
In view of the above, I am asking you the following question:
What do you think is the importance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems?
Please reply
I invite you to the discussion
Thank you very much
Best wishes
I agree with Your opinion on this very important matter!!
Thank Yoy very much,
Best wishes,
Edeltrauda Helios-Rybicka
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