Deforestation: Brazil, Mato Grosso

Question 1

Outline one reason for recent land cover change at this location

Answer 1

• urbanisation+ population increase
• wood, logging is a main economic boost, leads to land degradation meaning less species of trees and forests are more vulnerable to fire

Question 2

Human activity

Answer 2

• logging, leads to land degradation causing less species of trees and forest become more vulnerable to fire
• Brazilian government has opened up 860,000 hectares of the amazon rainforest to mining, logging and agriculture
• deforestation began in the 1970s of Mato Grosso due to the rapid extension of soy plantations
• accelerated in the 1990s when the number of cattle ranches more then doubled in the region

Question 3

Natural process

Answer 3

Wildfire

Wind

Question 4

Economic impact

Answer 4

• popular in terms of tourism, therefore creating business for local communities and providing financial support, aswell as in come for poor

Question 5

Social impact

Answer 5

• indigenous people of the Mato Grosso region hold some sort of spiritual connection to the amazing rainforest
• they also live inside the forests and are dependent on forests for their subsistence

Question 6

Environmental impact

Answer 6

• carbon sink

- Amazon contains 50000 and is important for genetic diversity

Question 7

Spatial technology used

Answer 7

• aerial imaging, satellite images= used to identify illegal logging
• remote sensing (aerial photography, radar, drones, satellite, and scanning) GPS can be used to classy and monitor forest cover and decked change. Also compares with other phenomena

Question 8

Responses

Answer 8

-spatial technology, satellite images has been used to enforce environmental licensing system for rural properties that was introduced in 1999 to curb illegal logging
-placed a ban on sourcing cattle from cleared forest
- these have allowed authorities to drecerase deforestation in the Mato Grosso by 93% between 2004 and 2010
11814 square kilometres to 828 square kilometres
- been achieved while maintaining Brazil’s lucrative soy and beef

Question 9

Statistics of amazons rainforest

Answer 9

11,000 square kilometres in 2004 to 1700, 84% decrease

- since 1970, over 600000 square kilometres of the amazon expected to decrease further 30% by the year 2030