summary response -illegal logging

Mike jermaine j.imbayan
Writer’s workshop
Summary response
Mr.Leverett

10/24/07

In Reel’s (2005) article entitled “As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks” he points out that illegal logging can affect the people that are living in the forest. Five Irantxe tribesman go in to the Amazon forest and see that it is a different place. It looks like it is not a forest anymore. Many trees have been cut down and in many cases it is illegally. They all think about money; that's why they do illegal logging. When a member of the government took a look at the tribes land he got shot in the chest with an arrow, because the tribe thought they were bad people. Some agency is protecting the forest and they are focusing on it. Some agency is helping the tribe by letting them buy anything they want, but they refuse, and they said they just want their land protected. This situation needs to be looked at seriously.

People in this world don’t really think that some situation is really a problem that can affect many things. This is because illegal logging is really bad for the people and the environment. There are many bad things about this situation. Is this what people in this world want our environment to be? They don't appreciate the things god made. People in this world should appreciate what they have and not ruin it for the sake of money. Illegal logging is criminal because they destroy the forest, disaster will happen and less oxygen in the air.

They don’t know that the habitat in the forest will be gone if they do the illegal logging, because some animals need trees to live. For example, birds need trees to live because they live in them. If many of the trees have been cut down, how will the bird live? They will die, because there are not enough trees. Moreover, not only birds, but many species, will die because the forest has been disturbed by logging. This is not good for the species or the environment.

There are many problems that will occur, like landslides, because if there are no trees, landslides will be likely to happen. This is really dangerous, because disaster will happen. When landslides happen with floods, it will make a big disaster and sometimes it is likely to take lives.

In this world no humans like disaster and bad things that happen to them. We just want a peaceful place to live in this world, for instance, with a nice forest to look at in every direction. Humans like green with many green plants there is more oxygen and people will breathe in fresh air. Also the tribe will want a good place to live. This is really good if there is no illegal logging and people control the logging. They can recycle things and control the cutting of the trees.

In conclusion, illegal logging is really evil because species will be gone and natural problems will occur. That's why illegal logging can affect many things in this world. So, people need to look at this problem seriously so that this problem can get lower.

Reference
Reel, M. (2005, June 12). As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks. The

Washington Post. Retrieved on October 23, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.