Latin_American_Issues__Environmental_Degradation

Latin American Issues: Environmental Degradation Latin America Issues Environmental Degradation Concept Statement: Several rain forests in Latin America, especially the Amazon rain forest, have been suffering from many environmental impacts that are diminished acre by acre of forest. Rain forest resources and species of plants and animals are being destroyed in shocking numbers. These factors also affect the inhabitants of these areas with diminishing resources. Supporting Evidence: · People use deforestation and burning practices in opening new areas for transforming them into farmland. · Until the end of the 80’s, almost 400, 000 km² has been deforested. (8% of total rain forest in Latin America. · The removal of nutrients from low fertility soils is another great impact on the rain forests. · Wood exploitation, the removing of lumber for industry, is one of the main activities that seem to occur in Latin America. · An artificial ecosystem, such as hydroelectric rain, forest, latin, forests, been, america, amazon, water, species, soil, resources, plants, found, environmental, being, areas, animals, air, acre, world’s, vegetables, vapor, transforming, total, supporting, suffering, studied, stations, starting, soils, shocking, seem, scientists, rivers, river, rise