Strategies to manage TRF Flashcards

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People and the Amazon

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Indigenous people have lived sustainabily in the TRF for thousands of years
Hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivation

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Name 3 strategies to manage the Amazon

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Protection through legalization
Reforest areas
Improve agricultural techniques

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3
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Parica Project

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Western Amazon

Sustainable forestry scheme aims to develop commercial timber plantation on government owned deforested land

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Surui people

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Participate is a scheme to protect primary rainforest on tribal land from further illegal logging and reforest areas degraded by deforestation

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What is the problem with improved agriculture

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Farming has been the main cause of deforestation in Ammonia

Permanent cultivation proved unsustainable

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Examples of Diversification

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Crop rotation

Combining arable and livestock operations

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Anthropogenic soil in the Amazon

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European explorers observed that the Amazon rainforest supported a high population as late as the 16th century

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Dark soils

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Human engineered
Inputs of charcoal, waste and human manure
Charcoal attraction micro-organisms and fungi
Char-wood is porous
Prevents leaching

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Future of farming

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Scientists are currently investigating these dark soils
If they can be successful recreated they would allow intensive and permenant cultivation
This would reduce deforestation and carbon emissions

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