For standard of living to improve for people living in a tropical biome development needs to occur. This however can have considerable effects upon both the environment and also themselves. An example of this is deforestation which occurs in large parts of the Amazon. The deforestation occurs on a massive rate to provide extensive land for farming and also for logging to provide timber. The land that is cleared for farming is often cut down using the slash and burn methods which is very wasteful and produces large amounts of greenhouse gases. The cutting down of the rainforest is harmful to the biodiversity because it does not differentiate between certain types of trees as in the Amazon rainforest there are as many as 480 species of tree per hectare. This shows that if the logging practice continues then the biodiversity will dramatically decrease. Also deforestation impacts on the original people living in the rainforest, for the Quichua Indians of Tena in