How does farming damage the rain forest?
please can you give statistical facts
Answers:
Farming as such doesn't damage the rain forest, unless you mean logging.
The problems caused by farming are because they cut the forest back and/or burn it to clear the land for farming.
Since 1900, the amount of tropical rain forest has decreased from 1.5bn Ha to 700m Ha, while Africa has lost 45% of its forest.
More details on the web link below.
the farmers come and clear vast amount of the rain forest so they can rear cattel on these lands.
Where do you think all that beef that goes into macburgers etc is reared?
It's a damn sight cheaper to chop loads of rainforest down (and sell the wood) and create massive ranches there than rear the beef cattle in the USA / UK / Europe etc. I believe for comparison sake it's something like an area the size of Wales is cleared for ranching every year in the amazon rainforest.
I lived in the Ecuador 12 years and worked down in the jungle. Rain fall about 100 in per year. A real rain forest and the co. I worked for spent 1 million dollars per month trying to keep the roads open. The jungle will take it back very quickly. I have seen fence post sprout and grow into trees. The natives clear small farms and they only last a few years and then they let it go back to the jungle. Everything grows and if u don't watch it it will eat u.
Because they cut down the trees to make enough room to have fields to grow crops and keep cattle etc
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Answers:
Farming as such doesn't damage the rain forest, unless you mean logging.
The problems caused by farming are because they cut the forest back and/or burn it to clear the land for farming.
Since 1900, the amount of tropical rain forest has decreased from 1.5bn Ha to 700m Ha, while Africa has lost 45% of its forest.
More details on the web link below.
the farmers come and clear vast amount of the rain forest so they can rear cattel on these lands.
Where do you think all that beef that goes into macburgers etc is reared?
It's a damn sight cheaper to chop loads of rainforest down (and sell the wood) and create massive ranches there than rear the beef cattle in the USA / UK / Europe etc. I believe for comparison sake it's something like an area the size of Wales is cleared for ranching every year in the amazon rainforest.
I lived in the Ecuador 12 years and worked down in the jungle. Rain fall about 100 in per year. A real rain forest and the co. I worked for spent 1 million dollars per month trying to keep the roads open. The jungle will take it back very quickly. I have seen fence post sprout and grow into trees. The natives clear small farms and they only last a few years and then they let it go back to the jungle. Everything grows and if u don't watch it it will eat u.
Because they cut down the trees to make enough room to have fields to grow crops and keep cattle etc
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