Land Use Conflict in the Amazon Rainforest - Review

We want to save and protect the rainforest so that it stays

natural.

• Native Amazonians

• Rubber Tappers

• Loggers

• Environmentalists

We want to continue to make a living by using the rainforest in a sustainable way.

• Cattle Ranchers

• Rubber Tappers

• Loggers

• Settlers

We want to use already cleared rainforest land in order to help feed Brazil.

• Cattle Ranchers

• Settlers

• Environmentalists

• Loggers

Clear-cutting is the only way for us to make money in the

rainforest.

• Cattle Ranchers

• Settlers

• Rubber Tappers

• Loggers

We just want to feed our families. We don’t even want to make money from the rainforest.

• Loggers

• Settlers

• Rubber Tappers

• Cattle Ranchers

We have been in the rainforest the longest. It is our land, and

we just want to continue living in our traditional way.

• Settlers

• Environmentalists

• Native Amazonians

• Rubber Tappers

The government gave us our land. We should be able to keep it. There is no where else for us to go.

• Native Amazonians

• Settlers

• Loggers

• Cattle Ranchers

By using resources from the rainforest, we are creating jobs for people in Brazil, providing materials for Brazil’s factories, and also helping Brazil’s economy from the sales of our exports.

• Cattle Ranchers

• Loggers

• Settlers

• Native Amazonians

The government should make us legal landowners of our

homeland so that our home cannot be destroyed.

• Settlers

• Native Amazonians

• Environmentalists

• Loggers

We have made a living off rainforest resources for generations. Our way of life does not harm the rainforest, so the government should protect our activities.

• Loggers

• Settlers

• Cattle Ranchers

• Rubber Tappers