Rubber Tappers
Why do the rubber tappers want the government to reserve the rain forest?
So they will have trees for a lifetime. They are worried about people cutting down the trees
Why do the Cattle Ranchers believe that raising cattle is good?
They believe that raising cattle in Brazil is good because thee money that they get from the cow meat goes to the government and that can be used for getting them out of debt and can be used for and take care of the people
Even though Brazil has a large economy, about ¼ of the population lives in poor rural areas. IN the 1960s the government did what in order to improve where people live?
Encouraged them to move to the rainforest
How many people use to live in Amazon?
10 million people
What did the brazilians not want to see with the natives?
They did not want to see the amazon basin develop
What do rubber tappers do?
Rubber Tappers use the land and the trees and then cuts in the bark and then collect sap in metal buckets, then they dry the sap to make tires, easers.
Why do some people want to get rid of cattle ranching in the Amazon?
They want to get rid of the Cattle ranching in the Amazon because the Cattle releasing greenhouse gases and the the carbon in the greenhouse gases kill the trees
Even though Brazil is a large country, they are limited on farm land. Only the richest people get the land. The government gave the poor what 3 things?
Free money
Free crops
Free land
What did the native people have to do for the farmers and ranchers?
They have been driven from their homeland to make room for farmers and ranchers
What led to conflict with mann group in the amazon?
Ideas have led to conflict
True or False: In 1870 when the price of the rubber dropped the rubber tapper plantations were abandoned. And know the number of rubber tappers has decreases
True!!!
Loggers use trees such as Mahogany and Rosewood as a major economic activity, these trees are running out and are hard to find, so loggers have to _____ ____ areas.
Clear cutting
The Climate in the forest is bad for farming because she the soil is low on nutrients. What happens to the nutrients that are there?
They get washed away by the rain
How did the newcomers negitly hurt the Native Amazonians in their major region?
They hurt them and their region by building highways and clearing a little bit of their forest.
What groups united to protect the rain forest from biodiversity?
The Environmentalists
Why do the rubber tappers whistle the local birds calls?
They use them to hide them in the forest so they don’t the wildlife
Different groups fight over the rainforest. Many groups oppose logging so they can have the area to themselves. Loggers say logging needs to continue if the regions ____ is to grow
Economy
Other groups such as Natives or rubber tappers want the settlers to leave. Why do the settlers decide to stay?
They need to feed their families
True or false did people die from the new comers or did they just get injured?
True
When did the scientist and environmentalist start coming to the forest and why did they come?
They came because they wanted to study the animals and plants to see if they could cure diseases and they came in 1970.
Why do the rubber tappers want the government to reserve the rainforest?
So they will have trees for a lifetime. They are worried about people cutting down the trees
Many areas of Brazil and the Amazon Rain forest are illegal to log in, this is because logging is a major cause of what 2 environmental issues?
Deforestation and Habitat loss to species
What are the settlers doing that the natives did in order to make best use of the land?
They are abandoned fields every few years, natives old fields are now able to be used for farming
What are the native amazonian fighting for?
They are fighting for to save parts of the rain forest from development
What did the Environmentalists want to slow down for the scientist?
They wanted to slow down the development of the rainforest because that would give the scientist time study the effects of the new activities