how much of the Amazon in Brazil has been destroyed?

Answer 1

Well the rainforest itself is only 5.5 million square kilometers but the entire Amazonia cover over 7 million sq. km. Since 1970, there has been a loss of about 700,000 sq. km. of the actual forest.

Answer 2

Industrial society has tended to see forests as free sources of valuable materials or as needless woods, occupying land and getting ´in the way´ of development. As a result of these pressures, every second the planet loses another two football fields of its precious rainforest cloak.

Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they yield - mostly harvesting unsustainable resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for subsistence cropping by rainforest inhabitants.

Many organizations have demonstrated that if the medicinal plants, fruits, nuts, oils and other resources like rubber, chocolate and chicle, were harvested sustainably - rainforest land has much more economic value than if timber were harvested or if it were burned down for cattle or farming operations.

The Amazon Rainforest is not only the largest forest in the world - it is often called the "Lungs of the World". More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest. Rainforests are one of Earth’s oldest continuous ecosystems and play a significant part in the health of our global environment by digesting and converting carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Answer 3

Money is destroying our plannet,its what makes the world go round.The people who are cutting down the trees are doing it for a company who's main goal is money.They dont care if they wipe out the whole amazon because they wont be alive to see it all gone.Its all selfishness and greed and they will never stop until the worlds supply of oxygen has run out.

Answer 4

Far too much I suspect. I think the whole planet relies on forests like these to support the rest of us and chopping down all the trees is going to make one heck of a big upset in nauture's balance. The politicians are always banging on about how much greenhouse gas we are producing and we need to save the planet and then all they can talk about is cutting down oxygen-giving trees and allowing new runways at airports and building houses on greenbelt(which is there for a reason!) so as usual, they say one thing and do another, and the rest of us can't do anything about it, whether we want to or not. Time for a revolution I think!!!!

Answer 5

I thought the Amazon was an internet book company in America has something happened in Brazil?

Answer 6

to several who have spoken above, the fact that the incas wiped out forests and it grew back is true...yet the truth is that it takes thousands of years for the original biodiversity of forests to grow back...too much has been destroyed, the important thing to realise is that brazil like many countries goes through periods of industrialisation...when asked once about the clearing of the forests for the transamerican highway the brazilians said that it was 'progress', the important thing is that we(the west) have come to the environmentalist realisation after we've gone through destroying our forests and industrialisation, capitalism etc., a true development would be to bring progress to the brazilian people through sustainable agriculture and plantations, eco-tourism etc., brazil is a capitalist society and profit counts, brazil has a great disparity in range between the wealthy and the poor...profit comes through logging, i don't think i need to explain this bit...but yes it seems to range from 20 to 50 km2 a day including illegal burning(50 for the 1990s though) and last but not the least we must understand that ours and the brazilian(excl. indig) relationship to the forest has usually been one of low importance till recent times... thanks and namaste

Answer 7

Rainforests are home to more species of plants and animals than the rest of the world put together.
An astounding number of fruits (bananas, citrus), vegetables (peppers, okra), nuts (cashews, peanuts), drinks (coffee, tea, cola), oils (palm, coconut), flavorings (cocoa, vanilla, sugar, spices), and other foods (beans, grains, fish) come from rainforests.
Tropical forest fibres are found in rugs, mattresses, ropes and strings, fabrics, industrial processes, and more.
Tropical forest oils, gums and resins are found in insecticides, rubber products, fuel, paint, varnish and wood finishing products, cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, perfumes, disinfectants, and detergents.
Madagascar is 2% of Africa's landmass but has 10,000 species of plants -- 80% are endemic (found no where else in the world).
The Amazon River is the world's largest river system. Its annual outflow accounts for one-fifth of all the fresh water that drains into the world's oceans.
780 tree species have been found in a 10 hectare plot of Malaysian rainforest -- more than the total number of tree species native to the US and Canada.
In 1800, there were 2.9 billion hectares of tropical forest worldwide. There are 1.5 billion hectares of tropical forest remaining.
Between 1960-1990, 445 million hectares of tropical forest were cleared.
Asia lost almost a third of its tropical forest cover between 1960-1980 -- the world's highest rate of forest clearance.
Almost 90% of West Africa's rainforest has been destroyed.
We lose 50 species every day -- 2 species per hour -- due to tropical deforestation.
more than 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day

Answer 8

At the moment, experts believe that the Amazon is being chopped down at the rate of 1 football/soccer pitch per hour.
If you wanna try figure out how much that adds up to then good luck but thats the figure any way, hope it helps

Answer 9

What ever happens to this world of ours blowing hot air won't make a difference, the root of it all lies in the hands of the greedy ,corrupt governments including the UK, "me, me, me,me" that's all we think about, until this attitude changes we have no chance of changing anything, look around us, what you don't want to see we turn away from, yes the human race has become a sad piece of ****, and we don't deserve to be custodians of this once beautiful world,even the animals know better, it is in the hands of the gods and until we change and sort out our corrupt governments nothing will change, we put them in power and then let them do as they like, the system of governing should be changed and monitored more by the people, it's the only way forward.

Answer 10

We have been studying this at school. The size of wales - each month!
Due to poor supervision over illicit logging companies trying to make a fast buck! have a look at BBC2's tribe web page, they have 2 interesting tribes you can look at - Penan. How scared the tribe are of the companies and how it is affecting the culture and way of life. Extremely sad!
Stop killing The Lungs of the Earth