The Ways in Which the Amazon Rainforest is Exploited

There are many ways in which the rainforest is exploited. Many of these ways are damaging to the environment. Rubber tapping causes almost no damage to the rainforest. Rubber tapping takes the natural latex from the tree by scraping grooves into the surface of the tree. The natural latex then falls into a cup, and is removed and processed to make the rubber. Rubber trees are quite rare - in a thirty square kilometre area, …

…Amazon rainforest. However the promise was not to come true. When the people came to the rainforest and cleared their land, they found out that the soil lost its fertility and was difficult to grow crops in it. Many people gave up and returned to the cities. However, for the people who persevered, they grew cocoa, corn, rice, fruit and coffee. However, these crops were hard to grow, and do not produce as much produce.