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The Importance of Preserving the Amazon Rainforest and Handing Control to Indigenous People
TLDR The Amazon rainforest is a biodiverse biome engineered by humans over thousands of years, and it is crucial to preserve and protect it. Handing control of the rainforest to indigenous tribes is a key strategy to ensure its preservation, and efforts to reduce deforestation and combat climate change are necessary to maintain its ecological services and carbon sink capabilities.
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The Amazon rainforest is a unique and important biome that houses about 30% of the world's terrestrial species and was engineered by humans, making it crucial to preserve and hand over to the indigenous people who have traditionally lived there.
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The Amazon basin became lush and diverse over millions of years due to changes in climate and the river system, and humans have been shaping the Amazon for the past 13,000 years, leaving marks such as terra preta, highly fertile soil created through intentional or accidental techniques, and evidence of ancient civilizations that were much more advanced than previously thought.
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The Amazon rainforest was once inhabited by advanced civilizations that were wiped out by smallpox brought by Europeans, and the Spaniards' accounts of interconnected roadways and lost cities are now being proven true.
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The trees in the Amazon rainforest canopy do not touch each other, likely to prevent the spread of diseases and destructive beetles, and the canopy is a different environment with different climates and a lot of noise from the creatures living there.
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The Amazon rainforest is home to about 34 million people, including indigenous tribes, and handing control of the rainforest to these indigenous groups is a key way to preserve it.
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The Amazon rainforest is home to a variety of animals, including monkeys, such as the Uakari monkey and squirrel monkeys, which play important roles in the ecosystem by spreading seeds and promoting plant growth.
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The Amazon rainforest is home to a variety of animals, including the Pink River Dolphin, poison dart frogs, toucans, macaws, electric eels, tarantulas, piranhas, snakes, tapirs, and the Candiru catfish.
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The biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest produces ecological services that benefit humans, such as drinking water purification, waste decomposition, and disease prevention.
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The Amazon rainforest is a crucial carbon sink, but deforestation and climate change are causing it to become a net emitter of carbon, which is a major concern.
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Brazil, where 60% of the Amazon rainforest is located, has experienced a significant increase in deforestation under the conservative president Jair Bolsonaro, but previous leftist president Luis Inácio Lula de Silva was able to reduce deforestation by two-thirds during his administration, and now he is back in power and advocating for the protection of the rainforest.
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Returning control of the land to indigenous cultures has resulted in a two-thirds decrease in deforestation, and wealthy countries like Norway and the United States are willing to pay to preserve the Amazon through special taxes and donations to organizations like the Rainforest Trust and Amazon Conservation.
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