Debate and Controversy.
Pro & Con.
Although no one can disagree that deforestation is an important issue, there is a huge debate as to who is responsible for stopping deforestation and how that process should happen.
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Greenpeace, an organization concerned on global environmental issues, believes deforestation should come to an end. This organization believes that ending it would be our best chance at preserving biodiversity and defending the rights of forest communities.
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On January 29th, 2009, New York Times, published an article on ‘Galloping Jungle’:Farmlands revert back to nature: ‘For every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing’. |
In this article, the authors suggest that “these new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the trend has set off a serious debate about whether saving primeval rain forest — an iconic environmental cause — may be less urgent than once thought.”
Meaning that deforestation isn't such an important issue and that it could wait because of these secondary forests. However, they won't support all of the life a primary forest would. |