Investigate how segments of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest are cleared for lumber, agriculture, and grazing

Name: Investigate how segments of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest are cleared for lumber, agriculture, and grazing
Uploaded: 2020-12-10T17:05:02Z
Duration: 59 s
Description: Damage to the Amazon rainforest caused by burning and cutting.

Damage to the Amazon rainforest caused by burning and cutting.

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Investigate how segments of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest are cleared for lumber, agriculture, and grazing
Why are rainforests so important?
Explore how Portuguese colonialism, slavery, and European migration contributed to Brazil's diversity
Brazil's shift from meat exports to ethanol production
Learn about effects of mercury used in gold mining on drinking water of innocent wildlife in Amazon Basin
Glimpse Amazonian wildlife, including birds, mammals, and reptiles
Learn about the roles of colonization and slavery in Brazil becoming the world's largest coffee-bean producer
Behold the multitude of Amazonian arthropods including spiders, scorpions, beetles, and mantids
Witness the lives of gold miners in shantytowns along the road network that carves up the Amazon Rainforest

Transcript

NARRATOR: More and more rainforest is cleared as a way of solving growing problems. And the needs of tomorrow lose to the needs of today, whether for more housing, or roads, or lumber, or farmland, or pasture.

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So many fires burn at once that the smoke can be seen by satellites in space.

Several years after a burn, the soil is suitable only for grass and cattle grazing. The rainforest does not return.

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