Get serious with south American nations on stopping deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

The Amazon rainforest is one of this earth's greatest resources, and without it we as a world would not have enough carbon dioxide recycled and enough oxygen for us to fulfill the most basic of functions, to breath. Without it we will die. And without it so will all the millions of ecosystems and the hundreds of tribes people who live there will also die. Two highway were opened up in the forest and it has led to to increased settlement and deforestation. The mean annual deforestation rate from 2000 to 2005 (22,392 sq km or 8,646 sq mi per year) was 18% higher than in the previous five years. South American Governments are doing nothing substantial in the way of stopping this injustice and dangerous cycle. As the leaders of the world we are obligated to.