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envioromental agencies

hin the rainforest are highly interdependent, so that even small changes in habitat or species can have serious knock on effects throughout the ecosystem"(Newman 19). This disturbance of the food cycle is wickedly important. In general, the food cycle literally goes from the ground up, plants being the primary producers. The plants are eaten by herbivores and grazers and the carnivores eat both herbivores and themselves(carnivores) when the forests are destroyed along with the animals of all sizes huge gaps in the food cycle are vacant. This is a "serious concern in recent years over stability and very survival of some rainforests which are threatened with irreversible change if not wholesale clearance"(Park 19). There mast be a way in which we can preserve nature. "A common and effective approach to protecting nature in many countries has been to designate particular areas as national parks or nature reserves, and restrict land use changes or damaging activities within the designated areas"(Park 132). Many people in the world do not want to see the rainforest disappear; as a result , reserves are set up. In 1990 there were roughly 560 tropical forest parks and reserves covering a total of 780,000 km squared and accounting for about 4 per cent of all tropical forest.When the forest people are taken from their homeland and put somewhere else they do not know how to change. "They are being pushed to the edge of extinction, and public sympathies are swinging in their direction"(Park 105). The modern world is so crazy to think the forest people can make such a drastic change. The forest people loss their culture because they can not bring their forests resources into the modern world. Displacement happens from taking away of land which the forest people use to support themselves. It is almost impossible to think that they can change their lifestyle and experiences and start all over. Families in the United States have a diffi...

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