ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON

Environmental destruction in Amazonia takes many forms, such as deforestation, loss of animal and plant populations from the remaining forest, disturbance and pollution from mining, flooding by hydroelectric dams, and elimination of tribal peoples and their cultures. The various types of destruction are all linked to the advance of deforestation. The vast extent and explosive rate of deforestation hastens the demise of natural ecosystems, closes the door to the most promising human uses of the region and provokes impacts that are regional, and in some cases global, in scope.

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