Rain forests are disappearing at a drastic rate. Industry is usually at the root of this destruction of one of natures resources. Land is needed for highways, agriculture, livestock, or to expand a city. Other times the trees themselves are needed by lumber companies of countries that themselves lack to forests necessary to meet their countries demands such as Japan. Environmentalists are deplored by this destruction refuting that bio-diversity is being lost, an ancient way of life is being lost as “people of the forest” are being forced out of their homes, new diseases are being stirred up and that the earth is a living organism and man is behaving like a virus.

Some third world countries clear cut the land with a slash and burn technique to build roads or highways such as the massive Brazilian superhighway. This highway stretches to one end of Brazil to the other. However as with many of these roads it leads into the jungle and just ends. Billions and billions of trees and animals are killed for these roads to nowhere for the sake of progress.

Simple farmers have always cleared the land for their crops. This damage is only minute compared to that of what happens when large pl

Other times theses lesser developing countries need land to support their own growing populations. These countries are unable to build sky scrappers so they spread their cities into the jungle. These homes are merely shacks not really like a home though.

An ancient way of life will also be lost as these forest go. These forest are inhabited by the last of the hunting and gathering tribes left in the world. One example of this is the Penan. These people live on the island of Borneo in the Province of Sarawak under the Malaysian government. These people live in tiny huts that extend a few feet off of the ground and live on grubs and local plants with an occasional monkey for dinner. These people are forced from this peaceful way of life to live in dirty government shacks filled with diseases never before encountered by these people. Other times hunting and gathering tribes resist moving and face direct confrontation with logging companies. Here common practice is to call in the military. Luckily these people know the forest so well that they can hide and not be found easily. One such case is that of Joseph Maler. This Swedish environmentalist has been living with the Penan for eight years while being persued by the Malaysian government and well as the Mitsu Corporation, Mitsubishi. However it appears that hunting and gathering people will lose their way of life much as did the American Indian.

Other times the land is needed for large herds if cattle. Without trees to protect the land from erosion from the cows, this land is trampled continuously with the cattle consuming all of the grasses as well. Once it rains the soil is further eroded away leaving the land barre

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