what are some suggestions for a sustainable development for a rain forest?

Question

try to look at it from a native indian tribe prospective..

Answer 1

Agroforestry - combination of agriculture and timber/ tree crop production to maintain the needs of the farmer while replicating the natural rainforest environment, therefore keeping the flow of nutrients from tree to soil, and preventing soil erosion.

Answer 2

forget about it there is no such thing in reality,sustainability means maintaining conditions that improve with time and increase in size
the opposite is happening all over the world

the Indians or local people would cut everything down and burn the forrest to replace it with harmfull short term farming killing the soil in no time

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years
the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.
TV put out a series of documentaries
there are campaigns in the News papers
and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day
more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees
it is an impossible situation
as long as there is poverty and an increasing birth rate in these regions the destruction will continue


the only way to preserve the forrest is to devellop eco tourism under strict control that has limited acces ,and use the local people in the concept as guides ,hotel staff and get them to start home industries of artifacts .

they are too easily tempted to sell of exotic animals to the unscroupelous people who buy them.for the market that exists in th USA.
just leave the forrests alone and look for ways to improve economis situations on the edges of Nature .
eco tourism is the only concept that profits by a healthy back ground with out harming it

Answer 3

- Selective cutting of trees
- Production of biomass and biofuels in "reasonable and limited quantities
- use of hydro power but be sure to have a fish by-pass in order not to disturb migrations
- agronomic and genetic research
- limited tourism (not mass tourism)