Endangered Animals in South America
The Earth is rich and bountiful; this is how our ancestors believed the Earth to be. They believe in the abundance of the resources of the world. There are also a lot of people in the not so distant past that believes the same thing, that the world’s resources are inexhaustible and sustainable. Yes they are all right, but they can only be considered as correct if the people would also take care of the entire planet. If the people abuse the planet because they believe that resources will never be depleted, those beliefs of abundance in the world are wrong, and are what causes the world’s endangered animals to die.
Now, there is enough information needed for the people to understand once again what they have inherited from their ancestors. When they have re-examined what they inherited and realize that the worlds resources are slowly depleting, and then they must take responsibility and act accordingly for the future generations.
Even though, humans have amazing inventions and discoveries in relation to science and technology, it is well compensated, if not outmatched, by the tragedies that are happening to the world. From natural calamities, depletion of resources, extinction of some animal species, and starvation.
Pollution is fast increasing in the Oceans, Seas and fresh waters of the Earth. The people must act today to save the slowly decreasing numbers of many habitats, animals, plants and even microorganisms so that the future generations will still experience and see these wonders. Action must be done right now before everything is too late.
The fast depleting resources of the world can be evident with how fast the forest in South America is deteriorating due to logging and deforestation. Just a hundred years ago, a primitive forest blankets South America. This forest stretches from the entire length of Chile to the Patagonia of Argentina. It literally covers the whole part of South America. This is how rich in resources South America is, especially when it comes to trees. The trees that composes these forests are Beech trees of the Nothofagus genus, evergreen and different kinds of deciduous trees. The Nothofagus breeches are one of the oldest kinds of trees. It has already been in earth since 150 million years ago. These trees extend a wide 35 million acres in South America. These trees create the most pristine temperate rain forest in the whole world.
When the European settlers arrived in this region in the 16th century, they started logging the forest until the 20th century when widespread clearance started. A massive amount of these trees were cleared and burned for cattle ranching during the 1940s and 1950s. This cattle ranching destroyed more than 13,000 square miles, or 8.3 million acres. The Chilean government allowed commercial logging to continue and no conservation acts are being done. This has been going on since 1995.
Powerful business people who own these logging companies opposed the legislation of laws to protect the forest. With this logging continues and animals are forced to find other habitats and are becoming extinct.