Actions to stop illegal logging in the Amazon Rainforest

Illegal logging is an activity that is known as the cutting of trees and timber, their transportation and their procession for trade by breaking the rules. It has become one of the greatest problems in the environment and in the world as one the most discussed issues. This practice is destroying some great rainforests such as the Amazon in Brazil. The Greenpeace UK (2001), has described some headlines about the history of illegal logging in the Amazon for the past year:

Over the past 30 years 15% of the Brazilian Amazon has been completely destroyed, reaching over 590,000 square kilometers, an area larger than France. One of the driving forces behind this destruction has been the dramatic increase in predatory illegal logging. In the last two decades, the Amazon’s contribution to Brazil’s total production of tropical wood rose from 12 to 90 percent, region providing an estimated 30 millions cubic meters of logs per year. According to official data, it is estimated that 80 percent of logs cut in the Amazon are of illegal origin. (pars. 3 & 5)

It is evident that that practice is in the center of damages and disasters in the environment; it is increasing violence, especially in Para, which is known not only as "a state with the highest murder rate related to land disputes”, but also "responsible for approximately one third of the Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon” (Greenpeace International, 2005, par.5&6). It is in Para where both the American Sister Dorothy Stang and Chico Mendes were killed because of their struggle against illegal logging and their defense of the poor local communities (Greenpeace International, 2005). And also it provokes the loss of species and their habitat, it deepens poverty in some local population that needs the forest and its resources for survival. As a result, the problem has concerned the Brazilian government that works with his agency IBAMA in order to fight the practice, which is much more linked to the traffic of Mahogany (the most used and cut wood in the Amazon) (Greenpeace US, 2003), and one of the factors that give access to illegal logging in Amazon is the roads built inside the forest (Phillips, 2007, The Guardian International).

What is the point of having a great forest while it is not well protected? Do people wonder about the environmental dangers that can occur after destroying the forest? Certainly, that is what is happening in the Amazon rainforest through illegal logging; but immediate actions and solutions are possible to keep it away from the practice and decline that. Being aware of the problem, thus, they should reinforce and review the security plan, apply the transparency and strong authorities in the actions, reduce poverty, supervise timber industries work, and target the most damaged areas.

Regarding the Amazon size, the security must be efficient and guaranteed to deal with illegal loggers that use violence and crime to save their affairs. According to Butler (2007), “Violent conflicts between landowners, poor colonists, and indigenous groups over land are not unusual in the Amazon and maybe worsening” (par. 22). Therefore, the Brazilians government is obliged to reinforce and revaluate again some of the security strategies; even if they are using “satellite” detector to control all the logging in the Amazon forest, that is not only like a main point to break the practice, which is largely widespread, but also, a step that should be joined with other systems to make it stronger. Here is a way, before deploying a security force in such area of the Amazon, it is better for Brazilian authorities to master all the four squares of the Amazon, then establish a real plan, which is going to analyze the practical feasibility of the actions and the number of security agents such as police, and soldiers who must be sent in different areas regarding the gravity of illegal logging. Most the illegal loggers are malign and cunning due to their experience in the traffic. Asner said, “Much of the logging [in Brazil] is illegal but difficult to enforce, because it is usually clandestine” (as cited in National Geographic News by Owen, 2005). They may also struggle with security agents sent for protecting an area, because they also use guns. Consequently, the security force must be well equipped with appliances and materials able to deal with those people. That is possible to be fulfilled; because the problem is strongly known throughout the world and some international organizations are informed about that. In “Our role in stopping the Brazilian mahogany trade”, Greenpeace states, “illegal logging is a global problem” (2003, par.45). However, it should not be easy for Brazilians authorities to solve the entire problem by themselves, because they will need some financial support from outside, such as international community or other organizations for environment such as the Global Environment Organization (GEO). Also, the international police and Interpol should be in order to strengthen the security actions in the Amazon rainforest. Indeed, even the United Nations Security Council should be required to do something about that. Otherwise, the reinforcement of security should not only be inside or around the forest but also in all the borders of Brazil with other countries; this control has to be systematic and reinforced in the airports, ports, train stations and in all corners, where timber might be found and might need to be justified regarding its origins and precision of destinations, and the loggers for their personal identities. The capacity of security is a factor not to be neglected for facing this illegal logging and its realities in the Amazon rainforest.

In the second part, they should consider transparency as one of the ways for declining the traffic, in the case that it will lead to good management and administration, justice, responsibility, rightness, and lucidity in the issue and the work. The lack of these steps will more likely deepen illegal logging; beyond that, the concern is to suppress the problem. Achieving that goal, the responsibility should come first from Brazilians citizens, timber industries, and other Brazilian authorities from federal governments. About citizens, mostly local people and other communities who live in the area nearest the forest, it is for their responsibility to fight first those illegal practices, for instance, by giving to some nearest authorities all possible information about illegal loggers and what happen in the forest. If not, perhaps their situation and the problems that they encounter from illegal loggers will not really overcome. For the Brazilian administration, they should also emphasize their actions over the disciplinary measures; this means that like people, citizens, and companies or industries, once dreaded in the traffic of illegal logging, which breaks the rules of law, they should consider them as criminal and send them to justice. Also, not only like for timber cutters to be sent to justice, but also, all their actions have to be suspended both on the national level and the international level, then as a penalty they should be required to pay a fine, and that may help to promote some environmental projects of reforestating or replanting trees cut in the forest. Furthermore, the task is also to insist on all other authorities of federal government, and a security agency to take some attitude of responsibility in their area, to be right in their actions for fighting illegal logging (loggers); they should not work with cupidity, and are supposed to stay away from not only all temptations but also advantages or benefits to get from illegal loggers that may disorientate them from their principal purpose, but they should much more struggle for facilitating the application of all rules that define the practice of logging. In his “initiative against illegal logging”, President Bush and his former secretary of state, Powell (2003), suggested the support of all the initiatives related to the forest principle and management as one of the actions to take for declining illegal logging in the Amazon. Those are how responsible people should behave in those steps in order to reach the goal of stop this phenomenon.

Third, some local populations are getting involved in the practice of illegal logging because they are under a miserable situation. For some of them, the best way to survive is not only working in the forest by replanting or sustaining trees, but also facilitating illegal loggers. That’s why it is very crucial for Brazilian authorities and others where the Amazon rainforest crosses to improve the life conditions of those people by giving them insurance, protection, and some important occupations, and promoting their initiatives of sustaining forest. According to Hendershot (n.d), the Brazilian president and government projected a sustainability logging program with the purpose of decreasing illegal logging and employing most of the rural population, it will be evident that illegal logging should be decreased in some areas; because those activities will be supported by authorities or other organizations gathered to fight for the declining of illegal logging. In fact, what keeps them in those traffic of cutting trees illegally, is that perhaps they are not benefiting from any support; also, some of them may be hopeless about their life and have no idea about what to do like an activity; that is why they are sometimes exposed to do anything they can do to survive and help their lives and families. The poverty should be reduced in order to get some local communities out of the traffic of illegal logging.

Fourth, in other ways, declining the impact of this activity, some limit must be given to people, operators or timber industries that even log legally. The reason for this is that even if they are reliable to thank to their legalities of respecting the law enforcement on the forest, there is nothing wrong if their activities should be supervised in order to avoid some mistakes and irregularities likely to log some timber illegally. In Nature News: Amazon protection to be expanded in Brazil’s Para state, Deutsche Presse- Agentur (2006) wrote, “the new law, which the federal government said was aimed at halting destruction of the vital ecosystem and gaining oversight of logging, granted timber companies up to 40-year licenses under the condition that all logging be sustainable” (par.9). This is because there can be a strong probability for those people under their activity, which is considered as legal, to transport or cut trees illegally. In the same way, they must be deprived in some of logging. In addition, before they can be allowed to have access in the harvesting of timber, they should be required to demonstrate such a plan of a good management of forest after using that. If it is not the case, therefore, they must not be permitted to undertake actions in the forest.

Fifth, in addition to classifying the most illegal logging parts in the Amazon, that system will be helpful so that all the areas could be targeted. The cause of this is important for organizations, governments, environmentalists, experts on forest studies, and even reporters to make some estimates and statistics to tell about the amount of timber harvested illegally per year or month. For instance, A. Cooper of CNN, Dr. S. Gupta, and Animal Planet J. Corwin, did some investigations in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in order to know about the real problem of illegal logging and its causes and effects in the environment. Moreover, they should also target the entire private sector held by some landowners so that they could be returned to the control of authorities. However, they should proceed to the closure of all the ways leading inside the forests, which give access to most illegal loggers. In other words, even the roads that have been drawn before and connect some of the areas as the main way, must be suppressed for a moment in order to find other possibilities of creating other ones, well controlled and protected, which would not really contribute to the loss of forest. Phillips(2007), wrote that “it is estimated that there are more than 105,000 miles of viscinais in the Amazon region-illegal dirt tracks that meander through indigenous territories, government land and ecological reserves and which pave the way for the continued destruction of the world’s largest forest” (par.4). Thus, this plan should be linked to those of security for efficiency.

In conclusion, it is evident that the problem exists, and its effects are believable and manifest. However, declining that illegal logging through right and concrete actions would be important solutions to save the Amazon rainforest. Consequently, the security examination should be reviewed to face all criminal loggers who mass murder the rural communities and the forest. All the local population and timber companies should be responsible in the fighting of illegal logging in the areas where they are. Also, the Brazilian authorities must consider the transparency as a way to fortify their actions and make them more responsible, then, work hard for the economic growth of the country so that the poor rural population could benefit from some financial or social support to survive again and give rise to their work of sustaining forest for counting on them in the struggle of reducing illegal logging. Next, most of the timber industries’ actions should be reevaluated regularly and controlled to avoid some imperfections in the logging process. Finally, in order to have a large vision of what is happening in the Amazon rainforest, the inventory of all the damaged areas and roads that give access to the forest should be taken for the precise aims of stopping illegal logging with possible solutions.

References

Butler,R.A. (2007). Amazon Destruction: why is the rainforest being destroyed in Brazil? The Amazon. Retrieved November 17, 2007, from Amazon Destruction

Cooper, A., Corwin, J., & Gupta, S. (Executive producers). (2007). Planet in Peril. [Television Program]. Atlanta: A CNN Worldwide investigation.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (2006, December 04). Amazon protection to be expanded in Brazil’s Para State. Nature News. Retrieved November 19, 2007, from Amazon Protection

Greenpeace International. (2005, February 13). Nun assassinated defending Amazon. Greenpeace News. Retrieved November 19, 2007, from Sister Dorothy against illegal logging.

Greenpeace UK. (2001, September 04). The Amazon Rainforest: history. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from history of illegal logging in the Amazon.

Greenpeace USA. (2004, November 21). The Amazon rainforest. Greenpeace news. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from Greenpeace about Amazon rainforest.

Greenpeace USA. (2003, October 15). Our role in stopping the illegal Brazilian Mahogany Trade. Retrieved November 19, 2007, from stopping illegal logging

Hendershot, R. (n.d). Logging facts in the Amazon rainforest. Linket news. Retrieved November 02, 2007, from logging facts

Owen, J. (2005, October 20). Amazon logging twice as heavy as thought, Images show. National Geographic. Retrieved November 04, 2007 from heavy logging in the Amazon

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The impact of Walmart

Today, all over the world the daily struggle is to deal with the economic growth, to satisfy people’s needs, which represents a crucial step in the development of a country or an area; however, this is partially the same in the United States through the Wal-Mart market. Wherever people can be; there will be a corner in which they may find a quite a few of its stores, and some of them do most their shopping there because it provides many advantages in different ways, not only in the improvement of financial economy, and the affordable prices for every citizen, but also in the reduction of unemployment.

First, the primary step to evoke about Wal-Mart is that it contributes in to financial economic growth. According to economists and historians, in USA TODAY (2003), “Wal-Mart’s influence on the U.S. economy has reached levels not seen by a single company since the 19th-century rise of standard Oil” (par. 1). Whatever situations and circumstances, it constitutes as a force in the economic sector. Moreover, regarding its growth in business and impact in the market, most industries, businessman, and economical financial organizations would more likely to be signing contracts of partnership for delivery of merchandise, as they know that Wal-Mart is popular and their supplies may go faster on sales. The more industries and company can work and produce, the more the economy rises.

Secondly, in some societies and areas; it is sometimes difficult for some people to buy things that they want and to have access in some products, due to the cost of life and prices. But here is the opportunity given by Wal-Mart to allow even a person of lower social status to consume all that is necessary for him. According to Locke (2004), Wal-Mart is much more for shoppers who earn less, thus they are unable to have access to some high level stores. In addition, it is helpful for them in the way that they can plan their budget well and spent less money.

Third, the importance of employment in any area is to make people active, help them to work from the efforts for their daily survives. Knowing about how life will be difficult for people without employment, Hoeing (2004), of Capitalism Magazine, said that “In 2005, Wal-Mart created 125,000 U.S jobs, and is continuously adding each month” (par 16). This is a step that cannot be ignored, because in people’s life they will need work in order to get some money. Furthermore, it may also be beneficial for some people who did not really reach the higher level of studies, but they have some skills and abilities to do some things such as not only counting money, and using computers, but also helping and welcoming some customers to find what they come to look for in the store.

People claim that Wal-Mart will cause more harm to an area compared to some of its advantages and strength in the financial economy because it may slow down the market of others stores, and attract the majority of clients who will like to shop there for their interests. But there is another alternative that must be mentioned to clarify the issue, which is that most stores that have lower prices are rarely to possess products, merchandise, and supplies of premium and high quality because of their values and the cost of manufacture and getting done. Consequently, most people in the market that own valuable products seldom establish for partnerships with this sort of store, because of fear they will get less benefits compared to what they spend.

In conclusion, it is evident that Wal-Mart is representing a positive aspect regarding its presence in the economy and the business sector of U.S.A. It implantation has brought the financial sector up and stabilized the economy and the market, helped people of lower earnings to have access to all products for satisfying their needs, and also led some people to change from being jobless to having activity to do. In addition, it influenced a sort of reliability to industries and traders in business.

References

Hopkins, J. (2003, January 29). Wal-Mart's influence grows. USA TODAY. Retrieved December 05, 2007, from Wal-Mart's influence grows

Locke, E, A. (2004, February 24). Three cheers for Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved December 05, 2007, from cheers for Wal-Mart

Hoenig, J. (2006, february 10). Welcome Wal-Mart. Capital Magazine. Retrieved December 05, 2007, from welcome to capgam.

Declining illegal logging requires our support and solutions

Many environmentalists are complaining about how forests are managed throughout the world and how deforestation causes some problems in the change of climate due to illegal logging. This is also true for some organizations and governments about the trade regarding the timber that is harvested illegally and legally in the market. Therefore, analyzing all of those dangerous situations, all the people should be involved in the banishment of illegal logging, because this step would help to identify the areas most threatened by illegal logging, restrict the trade of illegal timber, and promote the personal initiatives of protecting forest.

First, it is very crucial in this stage to target the forest most destroyed by illegal logging, because the importance of that would be helpful for organizations, governments, or other parties to search for real strategies to protect forests and to break down the practice, for example measuring the size of the forest and seeing how to place some guard rails, for security to supervise those areas well. In addition, with this method, environmentalists, experts on forest studies, even reporters should be involved, because it will be necessary for them to make some daily estimations and statistics in order to tell how much timber is harvested illegally per month or year, and who is on the top of that and facilitating that. The bigger the forest, the bigger the practice. This is because it will be difficult to know where illegal loggers are getting in the forest for harvesting timber and where and how are they getting out of them, if there is no possibilities to master the size of the forests and its environments.

Secondly, knowing about all the damages that cause illegal logging, people must limit access to the consumption of illegal trade, and to support only the legal trade. That is because when they are in the process of purchasing or consuming wood, and they realize that some people took them without respecting the environmental principles of using forests, they must not spend their money in buying timber or products made from wood, which has an illegal source. Consequently, illegal loggers may be forced to give up the practice or join some legal organizations while noticing that their markets are going down and the selling is not progressing because they are beneficiating to any support. To illustrate, according to the European Commission (2006) in Your Voice in Europe, it was suggested if possible to promulgate a rule that in the European Market only timber harvested legally can be accepted and that the illegally harvested wood will be refused and all the products manufactured from wood must be proved regarding their sources before marketing in the European area.

Third, it is evident that we should promote some good initiatives of protecting forests that will be more likely to banish illegal logging, for example facilitating some local communities that use forest for their survival by giving them materials and insurance and encouraging their activities. We should use the same process for industries, organizations which would like to use forests with good management and respect of the rules, to give them the control of the area that they may use for harvesting and allow them to use any kind of security measure to stop illegal loggers. Moreover, we should arrest for jail or send to justice illegal loggers. The responsibility that can be given to people who use timber legally must beneficiate from the support of governments and other powerful organizations.

Some people argue about illegal logging and give evidence about its damages and negatives consequences in the world in general and the environment in particular, but they are not making any step to solve the problem rightly. They think that people who are practicing illegal logging are the main enemies of that, but on the contrary they are not making any efforts to deal with some causes that push people to undertake this sort of activity; such as poverty. In addition, they are also the ones who usually buy some products made from wood that is harvested illegally, and furthermore, they limit some laws of forest management in order that there could be some way that there is not really control in the forest. Also, they are people who support illegal loggers by giving them access to forest management, facilitating their trade, and giving them materials for using. Furthermore, if for instance illegal loggers are arrested or restricted from their traffic, they are those who intervene for them. Thus this lack of will explains that even all those campaigns, which are being made for stopping illegal logging, if they are not resulting in a fair conscience, would be theorical, and the practice will increase more and more.

In conclusion, the environment needs protection and conservation. Therefore we all should be against people who destroy that and struggle for the cracking down on their activities, whatever the circumstances. Reaching this goal, it would be better to have the good vision about the forests and more suffering for techniques to secure them, to boycott all the timber market resulting from illegal process, and to give grants and empowerment to all actions for protecting and managing the forests well.

People should learn about environment conservation; because if we don't think about those steps, it would be difficult to know how important it is for our life and what the consequences will be if we are not caring about its protection.

Reference

European Commission. (2006, December 22). Public Consultation on additional options to combat illegal logging. Your Voice in Europe. Retrieved November 04, 2007, from www.illegal-logging.info/uploads/addloptionssynthfinal.pdf

Despite a crackdown, illicit logging is on the rise in lawless areas of the Amazon

In Phillips' article, "Invisible but too real: the illegal roads speeding destruction of the rainforest: Despite a crackdown, illicit logging is on the rise in lawless areas of the Amazon", he is explaining how excessive illegal logging is in some areas of the Amazon. First he says that some people from there have tried to create some path secretly for transporting trees cut illegally by loggers in the Amazon rainforest, called the Trans Iriri highway. But in fact, he states that that highway has no real existence, because the illegal loggers cooperate with some people, unofficially armed, to secure and help them make the traffic easier. Therefore, the practice became opened and is not secret for the local population. Next, he underlines the fact that in spite of all strategies undertaken by the government through the satellite control and detection and deployment of security force for patrol in these areas, the traffic of illegal logging still has a lower rate of decreasing and the loggers are always continuing to do their practices. For this reason, some local in habitants from the areas are saying that there are no rules to obey in the region. In the end, some environmentalist has suggested, in order to decrease this practice, a daily systematic control by the government's force security is needed.

This problem of illegal logging in every big forest will not cease or stop automatically. But if all the international community can try to solve the problem by involving themselves in creating an international commission for the environment conservation with some new rules, that would be really interesting, and the illegal practices of logging may decrease, the forest may get secure and the rules may be respected.

First, worldwide we see how some big forests are being deforested by people who want to use them illegally. In our recent days, the establishment of a particular commission for conserving only big and significant forest can be a way of decreasing this practice of illegal logging. To illustrate, this way would include all the practitioners of illegal logging such as individuals, industries, and some countries, and involving them in a new perspective of environment conservation in ensuring their personal market but making them associated with the system of stopping cutting trees in disorderly ways. In fact the application and approach can encounter some difficulties, but success depends on negotiating personally with all leaders who are machinating those practices in every area of the world to find the common points for solving the problems such as how to secure the environment, to establish news laws ,and how to manage the commission with transparency and justice.

Secondly, the presence of a security group might be guaranteed, because as all have participated in such decisions or resolutions, the non-participants may be in difficulties because the affair has required the involvement of every logger, illegal or not, who has tried to settle some recommendations and headlines for the security of the forest. for example, a mixture of international police or special security group to control all the illegal areas where the logging are being made would be useful. In addition, those groups of security should be well equipped with materials to deal with all the illegal loggers. They can use guns, detection appliances, mobile phones for intercommunications, and vehicles for driving at all times around the forest to prevent the practice.

Next, if they put together ideas for such positive outcome or for interest of parties, it is sure that all those directives will be taken for granted. One small example is if they try to break the rules made by themselves, also all their particular interest and benefit will probably go down, as they had signed before as one commission to make logging legal by setting some rules. As a result, they are required to respect all that is recommend; if not perhaps others could be suspended or sanctioned as the issue became international, thus there are some limits and restrictions.

In conclusion, establishing a special international organization only for looking after the biggest forest that undergoes illegal logging might be another step to make the percentage of illegal logging down, to have a general view about the control of the forest for its security and to help people working legally under the respect of the principles which are needed for protecting and using the forest.

References

Phillips, T. (2007, April 21). Invisible but too real: the illegal roads speeding destruction of the rainforest: Despite a crackdown, illicit logging is on the rise in lawless areas of the Amazon. The Guardian International, p.25. Retrieved October 28, 2007, from Lexis-nexis

Global Warming threatens millions of species

Practice of summary response

In Bhattacharya's article, "Global warming threatens millions of species", she states that because of global warming, many species of animals may disappear in the future. That means that this phenomenon is a big danger for some animals and plants and may bring some negative outcome in their future, because they are facing extermination, location problem, and exploitation by individuals.

First, as the climate is changing and the planet is getting warm, some scientists have noticed that in the early upcoming year, most of the animals and plant species would be more likely to not exist. Because the global warming is attacking their habitual areas and affects their ability to live well, those animals will be required to run away from their places to another. Therefore, that movement will be the cause of their desperation; for example, if bears have to leave from snow if the global warming gets there, because the areas in which they went to live by escaping the climate change may not be compable for them, as a result they will be exposed to death.

Secondly, the problem of location might be counted also as one reason. Some animals have lost their ideal area because of the collapse or a big damage, for instance, the tsunami's phenomenon. In addition, as the earth contains this multitude of animal species the space has to be large in order to shelter all of those. If not, a danger may occur. Regarding plants, some of them require low temperature and cool climate. But the difficulties can be indicated if they are located in the area in which the climate is harm; there is no way those plants to live longer and push quickly.

Finally, some people have a wrong exploitation of animal use, they often find some rare species of animals to catch and use for making clothes suitable with the climate. For instance, as climate is getting hotter, some humans will need to make some clothes that can fit to any kind of climate change. Moreover, the use of plants by some chemist for certain chemical solutions or combinations should be mentioned as a danger that some rare plants have encountered, because they often try to find species that are not really easy to be found. Therefore, those species might become rare and at the end they may be lost.

To conclude, I would say that those realities of climate change and global warming are permanent problems, and can cause damages to species such as animals and plants, because they will be expected to die; they may be extinguished or lost. The global warming pushes them to change for a new environment that cannot even accept their race. Because of that, as the danger is noticed, it is very interesting to take a step to prevent the phenomenon and try to protect the existence of some species of animals or plants that are seldom to be found from the situation that might damage them and their future.

References

Bhattacharya, C.(2004, January 7). Global warming threatens millions of species. NewScientist.com. Retrieved October 16, 2007, from http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true

Life drains away from towns built on the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest

In Phillips' article, "Brazil: The clampdown on illegal loggers has brought a dramatic decline for local residents", he explains how the authorities of Brazil have tried to abolish and restrict the problem of illegal logging in the city of Castelo dos Sonhos, a famous city of dreams for most of the people in Brazil. But next, he underlines that because of this decision of the Brazilian government, the economy and the life conditions have become more likely difficult for some citizens, who suffer from the lack of job, loss of market or trade. In the end, he also states that because of the death of Dorothy, a nun who has been also fighting for the protection of the Amazon Rainforest, the brazilian government has tried to get the Amazon Rainforest conservation as it one of concerns by dealing with illegal logging.

There is a saying that says, "the law is rough but it is still the law". However, the preservation of nature and environment must be in the mind of all the people by not looking their own interest. But it is also important good for authorities to think how to reduce poverty among people, to create a job for them, and to protect social conditions for them.

First, reducing poverty among people is one of the concerns for today's actuality in the world, whatever situations that happen. As the poverty is getting some family, the leaders need to seek some permanent solutions to resolve that rather than let the population find their own way to survive. As a result, they can do anything for themselves to get the best of their life, without caring about the outcome that can be fall either nature or the environment. For instance, people who live in the north part of Brazil which is traveled by Amazon, the name given to the big Rainforest there, are often doing illegal logging through cooperation with some individious or illegal industries. Those people use peasants to help them cutting trees in the forest and after that they give them some money in return. Moreover, these people have no care or idea about which trees can be cut, or which cannot be, comparing the weather and ecology.

Second, if in such area there is some full or part time job for helping people working legally, they may not target other things, rather than work hard for their own job which helps them survive and satisfy their daily needs. Others from their job and their money earned from that can even contribute to the improvement of the environment by initiating some work for the evacuation of garbabe or dirt on the avenues, streets and their own places. Furthermore, they may think they would rather cut trees in the forest than create some touristy places in the safe area inside the forest so that people can visit the environment of the forest, to camp during weekend, and to take some pictures showing the beauty of the nature. These are not impossible if people internalized the importance of nature and environment.

Finally, to protect the social conditions is to make the society in alignment with all the positive circumstances that can surge. If there is a decision to forbid such a situaton, it is sometimes good to analyze how to get people involved in the issue. To illustrate, as the Brazilian authorities are restricting the illegal logging for a legal plan of practice, it would be easier if they should also use people who used to do that, such peasants, industrial workers, and some other individious people in order to make the issue more efficient.

In conclusion, the protection of nature and the environment is not too bad, and everybody should walk with this step. In fact if some authorities are dealing with this problem for people who destroy them for their own benefit and trade, they should be expected to get those people rid of that by ensuring their life conditions, by giving them some responsability, and by helping them to work legally for the happiness of all.


Reference

Phillips, T. (2006, November 21). Life drains away from towns built on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest: Brazil: The clampdown on illegal loggers has brought a dramatic decline for local residents. The Guardian International, p.23. Retrieved October 23, 2007 from LexisNexis.

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