Atlantic Rainforest Of Misiones (Argentinia)

This week’s sample of the German newspaper “Agrar Heute” says that due to bad weather conditions there won’t be much of a soy harvest in Argentinia this year. Thus farmers from around the world are advised to at least this year look for alternatives to soy-based food to feed their cattle, pigs, goats, ducks, geese, chickens etc.

“Domradio” now criticizes that while most media focus on dug-related problems in Mexico, next to the poverty of many, illegal drug dealing, gang wars between drug-gangs and drug-related crimes are a huge problem in many Argentinian cities, too.

The news show “Tagesschau” now published an article about this rainforest: For years now Argentina has been known for its remarkable export of soybeans. The problem is that during the last few years they have been destroying huge parts of this forest for new fields as soyfields constantly need to be replaced due to the fact that they need to recover from the high requirements of these plants. Maybe I would feel less sympathy for the animals and the plants that live there and even for us who need the rainforest to produce more oxygen for us to breathe if it wasn’t for another inhabitant of this forest. Even though people there consider the Argentinian rainforest as impenetrable there actually is a group of native people living there. They are called Toba-Indios and their skills to survive in this dangerous as well as merciless rainforests are impressive and remarkable. Their hunting skill is at its best and so is the method they use to gather fruits. Alas these fields step by step replace their home the rainforest and thus also endanger their way of living. As long as most people from industrial countries buy more food – in this case soybeans and products that contain these fruits – than they need to survive and to stay healthy and as long as human population keeps increasing so rapidly this is not going to change.

Rainforests like the ones there get destroyed to be able to build new plantations-for example for coffee. However coffee becomes less and less worthy and thus the peasants become poorer and poorer which could give them the idea of building more plantations to gain at least a little more money which of course will do more harm than good; still the peasants will stay poor, more natural environment gets destroyed and by continuing to build their coffee plantations they will only change the situation to the worse.
In fine you can say that a country that lives from primary commodity exports (e.g. Burundi which takes 90% of its income from the export of coffee) will stay a poor developing country.
About a critically endangered bird living in this country: I know the Brazilian merganser doesn’t live in the rainforest, but at least it’s the same country, Argentinia and I just had to remove some of my – way too many – photos: “http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/misiones-more.htm” belongs to an organisation that helps the home of this bird, the Atlantic rainforest of Misiones (Argentina), while “http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-the-brazilian-merganser” is a website where you can join a petition to actually save this bird.
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First comment reuploaded: “http://www.opinionworld.co.nz/ow/index.aspx?FilterId=2361&ChapterId=7884&ContentId=264075” and “http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/misiones.htm” belong to two organisations that try to preserve this beautiful piece of nature and they even give YOU the chance of getting involved, just as the organisation that belongs to the website “http://www.atlanticrainforest.org/index.php?page=facts”.

On the other hand I guess all natural environments are beautiful.