Strategies to manage TRF

Question 1

People and the Amazon

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Name 3 strategies to manage the Amazon

Answer 2

Protection through legalization
Reforest areas
Improve agricultural techniques

Question 3

Parica Project

Answer 3

Western Amazon

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

Question 4

Surui people

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is the problem with improved agriculture

Answer 5

Farming has been the main cause of deforestation in Ammonia

Permanent cultivation proved unsustainable

Question 6

Examples of Diversification

Answer 6

Crop rotation

Combining arable and livestock operations

Question 7

Anthropogenic soil in the Amazon

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Dark soils

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Future of farming

Answer 9

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