Brazil is countries of continental size, each of its regions are very different and unique.  Besides environmental differences there are also the ones related to population and live quality.

Some states have incomes from industrialized activities, farming, tourism, services and so on. The states at the rainforest region have most of their income from farming which is a problem.

Deforestation rates due to new pastures have increased tremendously. Population living in the tropical forest surroundings are very poor and don’t have many alternatives to choose from when deciding how to provide for their families.

As profit from cattle and crop plantations increase so does deforestation. Forest is burn to open space for pastures. The main reason is the lack of labor choice given to the local population.

The local government has not done much in order to create or support alternatives of sustainable development projects. Actions from the civil society supporting sustainable projects that give alternatives to local population are most important to save the forest from turning into pasture.

It’s known for a fact that world’s climate is directly related to the carbon cycle. The climate change, the global warmth is a consequence of carbon emission. As far as this issue is concerned, rainforest plays a critical role into the global carbon cycle that shapes the climate of our planet.

The Amazon forest breaths and the oxygen and carbon gas emission are pretty much balanced through this process. What makes the forest important to reduce carbon emission is the CO2 used into the constitution of new organic matter of which plants are made. In other words, at the end of the day if there are plants growing, old or new, the rainforest will absorb more carbon gas than it will emit.

However, deforestation caused by fires will increase the carbon emission and turn the forest into a greater emitter other than an absorber environment. Fires burning down the rainforest are commonly used to pasture clearance.

The fires burning taking place at the Amazon region are responsible for 20% of the worldwide carbon emission. When analyzing this percentage of CO2 emission, becomes patent the major role of the forest into the climate change. If the forest continues to disappear it will turn temperatures around the world increasing global warmth

Rainforest preservation has to be taken as a main topic whenever climate change factors are on debate as should be the ways of how can we protect it.