There is a growing awareness of both the destruction of the earth's forests and their importance for all people on the planet. Most attention to date, however, has been focused on the destruction of the forest - its scope and causes - and the genetic and biotic value of the tropical forests. The demise of indigenous people is mentioned in passing, usually without reference to specific groups, although the discovery of the Tasaday is sometimes cited as an example of how totally isolated peoples can still be discovered in the rainforests.
6.2(Summer 1982) Deforestation: The Human Costs
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INTRODUCTION "Of all the environmental impacts of the study projections, deforestation probably poses the most serious problems for the world, particularly for the developing world." Global 2000 |
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Native cultivators in the Amazon have developed efficient and ecologically sound methods for making the tropical forest yield useful products. |
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Date: February 9, 2010
Over half of the 13,000 square kilometer Lacandón Forest has been destroyed in the past 15 years by spontaneous and planned agricultural colonization, lumbering and cattle raising. |
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Date: February 9, 2010
The Batek De' (a Semang group, or Malayan Negritos) numbered about 300 persons in 1981. They have lived in the watershed of the Lebir River in southeastern Kelantan since at least 1874, when they were encountered by the Russian naturalist and explorer Nicolas Miklucho-Maclay. They probably had inhabited the area for hundreds of years already. |
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Date: February 9, 2010
Coal deposits in Big Mountain, Arizona are at the root of the present controversy surrounding U.S. policy towards Native American land claims and relocation programs in the area. |
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The Kurds, a group of approximately 18 million people, are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. |
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The Ituri Forest, located in northeastern Zaire just above the equator and near the Ugandan border, is approximately 70,000 square kilometers in area. It is bounded by open savanna to the north and east and is contiguous with lowland forest on the south and west where its rivers drain into the Zaire River Basin. Situated on the lip of the basin, the altitude of the Ituri is 700-1000 meters, and its terrain is very hilly, even mountainous in its northern regions. |
