Threats to the Amazon Rainforest
*Logging interests cut down rain forest trees for timber used in flooring,
furniture, and other items.
*Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate
electricity.
*The paper industry turns huge tracts of rain forest trees into pulp.
*The cattle industry uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear ranch land.
*Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for
cropland.
*Subsistence farmers slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room
for crops and grazing lands.
*Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines.
*Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and
transit roads.
*Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest.
furniture, and other items.
electricity.
cropland.
for crops and grazing lands.
transit roads.