What effects have humans had on the amazon forest?

Question

i also need links to pictures demonstrating how the amazon rainforest has been degraded/destroyed

Answer 1

http://byderule.multiply.com/journal/ite...

it is all in there

the amazon looses forests the size of Switzerland every year,and this is speeding up,

Hover the mouse on sources click on deforestation

and the Amazon zooms in with a map that outlines deforestation

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/glo...

some large parts in the northern side remain untouched

David Attenborough did a report on it ,on BBC documentaries called Planet earth -jungles

The American corporations are doing the most damage

with clearance to produce Ethanol

The reforestation somebody mentions is Bulsh*t ,they replace diverse forest full of animals ,with single specie mono cultures  to produce palm oil or for timber to be cut down again,

and nothing apart from plagues of bugs lives in there ,which are controlled by pesticides ,and the trees are fertilized with chemicals .

relevant link

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 2

Look up biofuel production.  Environmentalists are clearing large areas of forest to make room for biofuel crops.

Answer 3

devastation to the nth degree,

killing animals, habitats

logging is unbelievable

Answer 4

they are destroying it stop em

Answer 5

We're turning into a desert.

Answer 6

cutting down the trees

making animals become extinct

making global warming more efficient

take a stand

start a petetion to save it and i will sign it a million times under different names

becase this needs to stop.

Answer 7

They simply destroyed and degraded the amazon rainforest but  they are planting trees to make sure that one day the Amazon will have more trees in place those that they cutted