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The Amazon Rainforest is experiencing degradation and deforestation due to acquisitive people clearing the land for agriculture and ranching. This puts the millions of species and indigenous tribes living in the rainforest at risk. Specifically, the Karipuna tribe has seen their land decrease and some of their members killed as they try to defend their territory. While the Brazilian government recognizes the tribes' rights, they lack support against invaders. To combat these issues, concerned people and organizations around the world must work together to regulate laws, conduct community programs, and practice environmentally friendly habits to preserve the rainforest for future generations.

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Reflection Paper MST

The Amazon Rainforest is experiencing degradation and deforestation due to acquisitive people clearing the land for agriculture and ranching. This puts the millions of species and indigenous tribes living in the rainforest at risk. Specifically, the Karipuna tribe has seen their land decrease and some of their members killed as they try to defend their territory. While the Brazilian government recognizes the tribes' rights, they lack support against invaders. To combat these issues, concerned people and organizations around the world must work together to regulate laws, conduct community programs, and practice environmentally friendly habits to preserve the rainforest for future generations.

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REFLECTION PAPER

Name: Hazel Marie T. Samson


Subject: MST 102B

The Amazon Rainforest has long been known as the lungs of the Earth with its huge

diversity of plant life. With that, it became the habitat of millions of species and home

for indigenous tribes in Brazil. These species and people thrive everyday, living in

prosperity with what the rainforest could offer and in return, they too are entitled to

protect the area.

Over the years, the withstanding rainforest, abundant with diversified trees is now

experiencing degradation. Several unfavorable acts caused by acquisitive people has

put the rainforest and its inhabitants at a great risk of endangerment. The primary

cause of this degradation is deforestation. In a span of several years, it is very evident

how this purposeful act of cutting the trees has made a decline in the areas of the

forest which was covered with trees has now become a converted area for urban use.

This has become a major concern for the tribes specifically the Karipuna tribe living

in the rainforest as per years of settling in the rainforest, they too have experienced the

relentless actions of the people trying to transform the area into something that is only

beneficial for them. According to the article, there has been a significant increase in

the percentage of deforestation after the inauguration of President Bolsonaro. This has

positioned the rainforest into its tipping point and could reach to a time where its

effects could be irreversible. The surging deforestation has also led to scorching fires

often carried out to illegally claim land and to clear and prepare areas for ranching

and agricultural production. The tribes who had preserved the rainforest for years, are

also now concerned for their well-being as there have been cases reported for killing
their members due to the greedy power of the people wanting to take over the land.

These tribes were given the right to fight for their land which was also recognized by

the Brazilian Government but is still facing the surrounding actions of invaders. Due

to the lack of government support, the Karipuna tribe has now taken actions on their

own and continues to fight for their well-being as well as of the rainforest.

Knowing all of these issues faced by the Amazon Rainforest and its inhabitants, it is

very important the we too, concerned people of the environment, should take actions

for this problem as we're also experiencing the effects of deforestation. Climate

change, pollution, drought and among other threatening effects towards the rainforest,

to the animals, and to us people should be addressed and a course of action should be

immediately implemented. We should work together in combating this issue,

collaborate with major institutions and organizations internationally concerned with

the preservation of the environment and natural resources, regulate more effective

rules and laws, and make our own actions such us conducting programs in our

communities and even practicing simple ways in helping our environment. The future

of the planet, not just on the Amazon Rainforest concerns all of us and we have the

responsibility of preserving and protecting it. What we take should only be enough for

the environment to recompensate and never maximizing something out of it that

makes it hard to regenerate again.

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