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<p>The Amazon rainforest is abundant in various features and functions as a big reactor to balance the environmental stability of the planet. Deforestation and burning in the region, trees release around 200 million tonnes of carbon per year. Your vegetables are responsible for releasing about seven trillion tons of water into the air, the evapotranspiration process and the Amazon River flows 20% of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean every year.</p>
<p><strong>So on environmental criteria, its importance is due to the following factors:</strong></p>
<p>- Variety of species;</p>
<p>- Phytotherapy;</p>
<p>- Freshwater, responsible for water and climate control;</p>
<p>- Carbon stock;</p>
<p>- Ability to transfer heat and steam to other regions, etc.</p>
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<p><strong>Already the economic level contributes to:</strong></p>
<p>diversity of plant resources, minerals, animals;</p>
<p>agriculture;</p>
<p>hydroelectric, etc.</p>
<p><strong>Below, we'll look in more detail, the main factors contributing to the importance of the Amazon forest:</strong></p>
<h2><strong>Amazon Water Resources]</strong></h2>
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<p>The use of these resources is highlighted in the Amazon, both for fishing and boating, as the use of drinking water, leisure, etc. The waters of the rivers, like the flooded forest are poor in nutrients, but even so are the habitat of different species of fish and aquatic mammals.</p>
<p>This is because every year during the rainy season, the banks of rivers flooding, leading to flooded areas, ie huge partially submerged forests. During this period, in addition to the river itself nutrients, litter (dead leaves, branches and crop residues) is dragged to the bottom, as well as large amounts of seeds and fruits that feed the fish. The balance of these ecosystems is sensitive, and maintenance of forests on the banks of rivers is essential to prevent silting, erosion. Moreover, as mentioned above, it contributes to the transport of food for aquatic organisms.</p>
<h2>Biotechnology</h2>
<p>It is a technique used by the pharmaceutical industry, with the use of biological agents (organisms, cells, molecules, etc) for the production of goods and services, such as the creation of transgenic foods, essences, substances that fight pests, pharmacological products, and new sources of funding</p>
<p><strong>extractive</strong></p>
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<p>Are collections of natural products and a sustainable way of extracting forest products without affecting the environment. The main products extracted from the forest are: oils, seeds, fruits, fish, etc. Indigenous peoples were the first to use the resources consciously.</p>
<p>It is estimated that today, about five million families survive the Amazon Forest with the extraction, but it was not always so. In the second half of the nineteenth century, when it began the rubber boom in the Amazon, the extraction was made of rampant, tappers (Northeastern workers fleeing drought) collected the rubber that was sent by rubber to the United States and Europe. In addition to this activity is one of the most important in the Amazon and have contributed to the expansion of cities (such as Manaus and Belém), little benefited the workers who were still living in poverty. After the crisis of rubber in 1920, latex suffered disputes, leading many investors to bankruptcy<strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Fire Barrier</p>
<p>As the vegetation of the forest is high, dense and they have the ability to remain ever green, even in the dry, it causes them to function as a barrier to prevent forest fires, preventing the fire from spreading. With deforestation, these barriers are destroyed and replaced by flammable fields, increasing the risk of fire.</p>
<p>Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Diversity</p>
<p>The number of indigenous or other crops (rubber tappers, chestnut trees, riparian, etc.) contributes to the cultural richness that few know. They learned to use the resources, because of their long experience in the forest and have become important for science and technology. In the Legal Amazon (area encompassing nine Brazilian states belonging to the Amazon basin. The term was introduced by the government for planning purposes with regard to social and economic development of the region) found 69% of the indigenous population, and 55% survive directly from the Forest .</p>
<p><strong>Ecological services</strong></p>
<p>The forest helps to ensure the quality of fresh water supplies, soil and protection of species diversity, as well as the water cycle facilitating activities such as agriculture.</p>
<p><strong>Traditional agriculture in the Amazon</strong></p>
<p>Families survive on traditional agriculture, and this is poor technological resources. These families use coming from forest nutrients. The concentration and recovery of abandoned areas and intensification of agriculture could take a correct man's impact on forests.</p>
<p><strong>Ecotourism in the Amazon</strong></p>
<p>Surrounded by natural paradises and diverse people, the characteristics of the Amazon rainforest can benefit internal and external economy.</p>
<p>Ecotourism is seen as a way of generating direct and indirect jobs for the local population on the fauna and flora preserved, able to reduce the environmental impacts of the Amazon.</p>
<p><strong>Climate changes</strong></p>
<p>As forests store large carbon stocks, from the moment it is cleared or burned, part of CO² is released into the atmosphere, a fact that contributes to the greenhouse effect.</p>
<p><strong>timber Harvesting</strong></p>
<p>The overexploitation generates deforestation. Already the rational does not exhaust the resource because it reduces waste, generates more jobs, has forest certification and also benefits the environment.</p>
<p><strong>Each of us can do something to prevent any damage to the environment, a simple act of littering in the trash, it is very important. Preserve nature, you depend on it. Thank Steemers.</strong></p>
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