f this island are entirely dependant on the crop that they grow each year. The so-called “natives” of the island truly do not have the same sense of money as we do. Instead they look at value as how much land they own, and how much they produce. As stated by Oliver Howes, “annual spending per person is US$7” compared to the USA’s $2765 (Howes, 577). This is a large difference considering that these people make only about US$240 each year. Just imagine that we spend nearly four hundred times more than the average Malagasy farmer. Since the people of this island are so poor they have no choice in continuing what they are doing. The Malagasy farmers solely rely on what they produce to help them live. When a person cannot eat because they are forced to stop farming, this is when the real problems will occur. Unfortunately this is a never-ending cycle because even if they do continue to farm and burn down more forest, eventually they will come to the same end. No more farm land, no more food, no more way of life. And if the burning does continue then there will cease to exist any form of life. Whether it is rare flowers and trees, or very unique animals such as lemurs. Even the humans will need a place to move so that they could continue living. It does not help that the people of the island rely on only one method of survival, a method that has been put to use for over two thousand years. The educational state of the island will drastically affect the outcome in the next few years. Not only do the farmers and the herders only know of one way of life, but they do not even realize the amount of damage they are doing. If you were to ask one of them they would say that there will always be forest and that they will never run out. Little do they know that eventually there will not be any left and we must tell them. It is our duty to save one of the last paradises on earth.Unfortunately for the isl...
