Amazon

Question 1

Rubber tappers

Answer 1

Want to do: they want to tap trees, end deforestation, develop sustainably

Defense: aren’t harming the trees, make money and have been there longer than any other group other than the natives

Question 2

Loggers

Answer 2

Want to: cut down trees, clear cut and make/sell wood products

Defense: no furniture or paper without them, make jobs and money, and lots of energy comes from fuel wood fires

Question 3

Miners

Answer 3

Want to: mine collect and sell. Want zinc, iron, silver.

Defense: make jobs and products, and don’t deforest as much as other groups

Question 4

Cattle ranchers

Answer 4

Want to: rasie cattle, make beef and sell it

Defense: feed to world, make jobs and money, one of the biggest exports in the world

Question 5

Native Amazonians

Answer 5

Want to do: they want to continue their way of life- to hunt, gather and farm. They also don’t want to be apart of development of the land.

Defense: we have been here the longest. Its not fair to us if you overdeveloped other areas

Question 6

Enviormentalists

Answer 6

Want to: stop deforestation, for sustainable development and ecotourism, for rubber tappers, pharmaceutical companies and natives

Defense: find medical cures and lots of wild life and amazon is lungs of the earth-protecting it

Question 7

Farmers

Answer 7

Want to: small families- get out of poverty and use slash and burn, large companies- farm soy beans

Defense: small families- don’t use a lot of land~ small, large companies- jobs, money, millions of soy beans

Question 8

Pharmaceutical Companies

Answer 8

Want to: use plant to develop medicine, work with natives and preserve wild life

Defense: come up with lots of cures, jobs and money, have only studied 1% of plants and sustainable