In carbon terms, and considering only woody vegetation, this represents close to 38% (86,121 MtC) of the 228,700 MtC Nowadays, the expansion of the market and the expansion of colonization The groups that lost access to the more fertile lands – or were never Starting in the mid-20th century, many factors galvanized national found in the tropical areas of America, Africa, and Asia1. [...] The rubber (known As a result, several colonization zones were established and persist to also as siringa or shiringa) boom in particular had the greatest impact25, these days, primarily in the Andean foothills (such as the Chapare zone expanding the exploitation of the indigenous workforce for the extraction of in Bolivia, the Selva Central in Perú, and the department of Caquetá in a natural reso. [...] However, the majority of the 1970s programs failed, often due and the USA led to the exploitation of rubber in the southeast Amazon, to the absence of support for settlers, who remained isolated in the middle inducing migration to these forests and the formation of new settlements of vast expanses of forest and unable to succeed in their agricultural like the prosperous city of Manaus (Brasil). [...] At the same time, the extensive cultivation of coca in the took deforestation of relatively small areas, and allowed the formation of many of hold in the Andean countries, leading to moderate deforestation and the the major Amazonia cities that still exist to this day. [...] It also reinforced the occupation Brasil was and continues to be one of the main factors in the loss and of southern Venezuela for the construction of hydroelectric plants, the fragmentation of forests and other Amazonian ecosystems: the route laying out of transmission lines, and the exploitation of mineral resources, 4 between Brasilia (DF) and Belem (PA) constructed in the 1960s; the Trans- par.
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