According to the data released by the Brazilian National Institute For Space Research (INPE) the annual deforestation rate at the Amazon region has increased 3,8 % in the past 12 months.

The data was gathered from July 2007 to August of the current year, month in which the last dry period in the region takes place and where deforestation rates usually rise. According to this year data the total area of deforestation corresponds to 11.968 Km2. Based on this information daily Amazon deforestation can be compared to the size of a soccer field.

Most threes have been cut down giving space to new pastures and crop plantations. The damaged caused to the global environment and consequently to global warming is unthinkable.

Forest clearance is mostly done by burning which releases a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere having a direct effect onto the climate. Indirect effects come within time as there is less forest to absorb carbon dioxide.

Another year is coming to an end and not enough has been done in order to prevent Amazon deforestation. Besides the climate effects there are also unique plants and animals that vanish as the forest gets smaller. It is time for everyone of us to do our share and help out the forest.

Rainforest deforestation is happening in large scale. The Amazon is home to an uncountable number of animal and plant species and once the forest disappears so will all those animals and plants.

Because the rainforest is such a unique environment there is no other place that could be home to all those animals. The forest burnings, lodgings and clearance for pastures are already place some plants and animals on the extinction list.

Besides Amazon importance to a great number of species there is also its importance to world’s climate and animals. The temperature rise in the past years has compromised not only species living at the rainforest but also species spread all over the world.  The rainforest plays a key role on the planet and its climate and must be preserved.

Saving the rainforest is not an easy task, it will take time, political and economical compromising and most important, action. Everyday there are more and more pastures and less of the rainforest to be saved.

Do your part, help us to save the rainforest.

The major rate of recent deforestation has taken place in Brazil, which represents 80% when taken into account the world natural forests. In 2001 the Amazon already had lost 13% of its original extent, it is equivalent of an area similar to Germany and France.

The rates had drop from mid 2006 to mid 2007 but in 2008 the data form the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research showed an increase of rainforest area destroyed.

Deforestation main causes are cattle ranching, Soya production and illegal logging. Those activities are all related to the lack of options given for the local population. Most of the people living around or into the rainforest do not have other way to make their living.

For this population the choice of damaging the rainforest is not even taken into consideration, as they don’t see another way of survival, the families do what is needed in order to subsist.

Brazilian government has a number of laws to preserve the Amazon but it is not enough nor efficient. The families depending on the forest need to make a living. Crops and cattle are taking over the rainforest and families in the area are getting jobs, selling their lands and dreaming about that a better life will come out of it.

Deforestations rates are getting bigger due to the demand for Soya and cattle pasture, main activities at some States where the rainforest is located.

As a result of Brazilian economic dynamics nowadays the rates of deforestation start to increase again. It’s time to give other choices of development and a minimum life quality to the population living from the rainforest, it is the only way to save the forest.