What is the impact of this deforestation in the poorer populations and the indigenous peoples?
The indigenous peoples die, because the home in which they live dies. The local populations die when there are no more forests and even more when the rivers are polluted. Farming activity is sustained by toxic products that pollute the rivers and contaminate the food. The specter of death hovers around us all! What is the impact of deforestation on Brazil and on the world? Principio del formulario The Amazon region has 1/5 of the sweet water in the planet. It is the largest genetic bank of the Earth. Until now there is not full knowledge of the number of vegetable and animal species that live there. I don’t want to call upon the thesis of “Amazon region, lungs of the planet”. That’s not the line. Scientists agree that the Amazon region gives environmental services to Brazil and the planet, and it is a very important factor in the regulation of the planet’s temperature. But we mustn’t forget about the oxygenating role of the sea, either. Nevertheless, the destruction of the Amazon regio
