| Let's be clear: Today are destroyed:
93%
of the Mata Atlantica Forest,
50%
of the Cerado,
20%
of the Amazon Forest.
At a rate equivalent to 5000
football fields eradicated every day from
the map, 20 years from now, what will be
left of the great Forest ?
The El Dorado, so desired, suffers from 500 years of waves of destructive colonizations, coming from outside and inside of the country. These last 30 years, the population quadrupled passing from 5 to 20 million inhabitants in this region.
Since the 19th century the Amazonian forest did not stop being exploited: rubber production by the bleeding of heveas, the extraction of gold and of mineral deposits, business of the wood and more recently breeding and intensive soya farming.
Man is destroying the last primary forests still existing. By devastating every year enormous regions of tropical forest, we are depriving the planet of a vital lung, necessary to maintain our climatic balance. We are condemning vast areas to endure loss of fertile soil and grave floods.
We are depriving thousand of local communities from their original habitat in which they lived since milleniums. We are eradicating every day a piece of the worlds most concentrated flora and fauna and we are transforming these forests which are one of this worlds jewels, into a mere souvenir.
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