Why is the Amazon rainforest so important to Brazil and Brazilians?
For the indigenous population the Amazon rainforest is important because it is their home and their culture is closely related to the forest, rivers and fauna . If you destroy the forest you also destroy all the indigenous people that are left. Some of the tribes in the Amazon still have not had contact with outside cultures yet. Can we destroy the indigenous way of life? The people have been happily living for thousands of years. Humanity will lose their language, art, tales, and also their knowledge. If destroying the indigenous cultures (there are many different tribes in the Amazon) is not enough, the Amazon forest is also the home to thousands of species only found there. These species are from all kinds of life, from bacteria, to plants, to great mammals and many are already endangered. Mankind has already caused the extinction of thousands of species already with processes like deforestation, much like the Amazon rainforest is experiencing today. The process of deforestation for
