A typical history of deforestation

!: A typical history of deforestation

Towards the end of September, a community leader of a Shuar village in Morona Santiago province came into our office in Quito face in seeking help for a problem with his community. This story is typical of the types of events are taking place in Ecuador. He points out the disadvantage of indigenous peoples who struggle to deal with the forces of globalization and new economic system that it will face with the obligations and demonstrates the impunityexternal forces threaten to destroy their environment and their culture.

A stranger appeared in his village one day offering to sell a used generator for $ 2000, to provide light for their village. The community is eager to buy the generator, but only $ 800 in cash offer. The stranger said, he would, and he would take the rest of the trees that he and his crew were dropped and pull out.

moved in the coming months, the man with a crew in expansionLoggers and began mining the largest and best examples from the forests to which the Community is competent. Villagers are increasingly interested in seeing their forests are destroyed, but they are powerless to stop the illegal loggers from cutting trees and extracting them. The police have shown little serious interest in the promotion of the indigenous population, probably back often bribes from programs that are at issue in the opposite direction.

Now the villagers are invitedthemselves, living as they are, when all the trees are gone, and came to us for help in trying to do something before the worst happened.

Ecuador is losing its forest of 400 hectares per day (550 football fields per day), through illegal logging, the carelessly done, and the benefits of a relatively few dishonest people. Apart from the human catastrophes that result, as the history of environmental and ecological effects are equally serious. These forests are hometoo many unique species of flora and fauna. Once, these types because they are losing their ecological niches, and cut.

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