How do people use rain forest ?

Question

the way people use them and the way they damage them

Answer 1

Very badly.

Answer 2

When people refer to the destruction of the rain forests, they refer to the cutting of large amounts of trees to clear for farmland. There is no moderation in this process so there are no trees (or roots) to keep the soil from running off with rain, making the land unusable after a few years. And so the process repeats.

Healthier uses, and more profitable with proper marketing, are to MILDLY hunt and harvest for rare plants and animals for the use of medicines and remedies. These would be more profitable as an export than the grain that would be grown in the same place.

Answer 3

The natives that live in the rain forest utilize its natural resources for all their needs from food, to shelter, to clothing.

Scientists use the rain forest in the search for medicines derived from the native plants and animals there.

Scientists also use the rain forest for research on ecosytems and the destruction of ecosystems.

Loggers use the rain forest for a source of wood like mahagony and other words native only to rain forests.

The rain forests are the "dinosaurs" of the plant kingdom. They exist in a small band that encircles the globe near the equator. They thrive on the poorest soils in the world. This may surprise you, but the soil of the rainforest is so depleated in stored nutrients that you could not grow a corn field on it for more than a couple of years. It is depleted because Mother Nature recycles EVERYTHING in the rain forest very efficiently. This is why, if we destroy the rain forest by cutting it down, we can never replant it. The rain forest has evolved over millions of years. When it is gone, it will be gone forever.

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Answer 4

Well, there are tribes that use them for their survival, i.e. food and shelter. People cut them down because they are stupid and think that the soil there can support crops or cattle farms, the truth is, it cannot. The soil is too thin for that and they end up seeing that the crops don't grow and they abandon that area and go cut down more forest to see if that area can support crops. So, basically, tribes use them for survival (and they don't really harm them while doing this) but other people cut them down and make farms on them that turn out to be complete failures whil displacing entire tribes and killing the environment. Anymore questions?

Oh, and they also use them for logging and such.

Answer 5

They are opportunists that want the white picket fence and BBQ just like Americans, so they chain saw all those trees down and burn them to make way for farm land so that they can raise cattle and grow crops.

You can even see the devastation from space
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/GFMCnew/2006/08/0830/20060830_sam.htm

Answer 6

We use the trees to make the paper to write on.