Threats
A threat for the Yanomami Tribe is deforestation. More than half the world’s rainforests have already been lost forever due to humans wanting wood and also land. Almost 14% of the earth used to be covered by rainforests. Now because of deforestation, only 6% of the earth is covered. Experts predict that if deforestation continues, we may not have any rainforests left in 100 years time. Deforestation is causing the people of the Yanomami Tribe and also other tribes to lose their homes.
The main threats to rainforests is logging for the wood and for the land. Others can include power plants cutting down trees to generate electricity, furniture companies cutting them down for wooden furniture, the paper industry cut down large amounts of trees to turn into pulp, the government cuts them down to make roads, food companies cut them down for palm oil, mining companies cut the trees down to dig mines and also the miners are spreading deadly diseases like malaria and are polluting the waters with many chemicals they use for gold mining. In the 1980s 40,000 Brazilian gold miners invaded the Yanomami Tribe. The gold miners shot them, destroyed villages built by the Yanomami Tribe and exposed them to diseases which they did not have immunity to. More than 20% of the Yanomami tribe died in 7 years time.
There is a threat that that has been created by the government, the Brazilian Congress, which is not officially a threat yet but if release can affect the Yanomami tribe in major areas. The Brazilian Congress is a bill that will allow gold mining in certain areas in the Amazon, close to the homes of the Yanomami tribe.
Some solutions to these problems are culling trees, it would save millions on hectares of rainforests every year, start campaigns to educate people about deforestation, asking people who live near rainforests to harvest the fruits and nuts rather than cutting the trees down to get them and also pressuring corporations and companies to stop cutting rainforests down.
The main threats to rainforests is logging for the wood and for the land. Others can include power plants cutting down trees to generate electricity, furniture companies cutting them down for wooden furniture, the paper industry cut down large amounts of trees to turn into pulp, the government cuts them down to make roads, food companies cut them down for palm oil, mining companies cut the trees down to dig mines and also the miners are spreading deadly diseases like malaria and are polluting the waters with many chemicals they use for gold mining. In the 1980s 40,000 Brazilian gold miners invaded the Yanomami Tribe. The gold miners shot them, destroyed villages built by the Yanomami Tribe and exposed them to diseases which they did not have immunity to. More than 20% of the Yanomami tribe died in 7 years time.
There is a threat that that has been created by the government, the Brazilian Congress, which is not officially a threat yet but if release can affect the Yanomami tribe in major areas. The Brazilian Congress is a bill that will allow gold mining in certain areas in the Amazon, close to the homes of the Yanomami tribe.
Some solutions to these problems are culling trees, it would save millions on hectares of rainforests every year, start campaigns to educate people about deforestation, asking people who live near rainforests to harvest the fruits and nuts rather than cutting the trees down to get them and also pressuring corporations and companies to stop cutting rainforests down.