Why is it happening

• Mining for gold and silver• Minerals• Charcoal for companies to burn• Timber for all sorts- furniture, paper and softwood• Drug Barons, places for cocaine and things• Jobs• Houses• Roads and highways• Medicines• Cattle ranches• Farming

Affects

• The whole rainforest might disappear in 40years

• Every in the Amazon there is a football pitch destroyed

• 100 acres destroyed every minute of he day

Affects on Animals

• ½ of the worlds species and plants might be destroyed

• 137 plants and animals destroyed and dead everyday

• Rainforest sometimes referred to as lungs of the world

Devastation Pictures

How they do it

They use a slash and burn technique which is when they cut down the tree then burn them

Cattle Cases

• MacDonald's were charged with cutting down trees for their beef