Biography

KAPAX

In the year of 1976 a man called Alberto Lesmes Rojas, swam a distance of 800 miles in the Magdalena river (of Neiva to Barranquilla), for the overwhelmed surprise of the Colombians and the world. He have swam in the Magdalena, the Amazon, the Putumayo rivers. Lesmes is known as Kapax or the “ Tarzan criollo” of the amazonas.

This man who was born in Puero Leguízamo, Putumayo, son of a German and an indigena woman, has been living in Leticia, Amazonas for more than 30 years, he has dedicated his life to protect, to take care of ,and to defend the nature.

At the present time, Kapax works for the governation of the amazonas as guide tourist , so the ones who travel to know this beautiful earth, they are welcome by a strong character, who has no fear to hang in his neck an Anaconda of great size or to face crocodiles or dangerous animals that live, like him in the Colombian forest.

His fame is so huge, that a team of producers of the Geo&Geo program, of the Italian public television, decided to dedicate a documentary to him of one hour, titled The Last Tarzan and who according to its creators, “ is a tribute to that Colombian character, who armed just with a simple machete and strong muscles, travel on a canoe with an Italian young woman his wife and two childs inside of the secrets of the forest ”. The films, made by a team of six people was seen in Raitré channel three of the Radio and Public Television Italian RAI.

CHICO MENDES

Martyred activist Chico Mendes (1944-1988) devoted much of his life to bring literacy to the natives of the Amazon jungle, and was the guiding force behind the movement to organize the laborers of the rubber plantations in the South American rainforest. He alerted the world to the danger of ongoing deforestation in the Amazon jungle.

Francisco "Chico" Mendes was a native of the Amazon rubber plantations and a rubber tapper by trade. As an adolescent he developed a keen awareness of the injustice imposed on his family and his community by wealthy rubber barons who owned the rainforest lands. Despite a stringent ban against education for the rubber workers, Mendes learned to read and spent much of his life in sharing that knowledge with other members of his community.

He organized the plantation workers into labor unions, and brought their cause to the attention of the entire world when cattle ranchers--at the invitation of the Amazonian government--began a systematic deforestation of the precious rainforest lands that contribute a critical function in stabilizing the world climate.

New Deadly sins "Amazonas Colombia"

The Amazonas regulates the climate of almost the whole South America and his trees are the big processors of carbon diaxide and suppliers of oxygen. Its for it that this zone of wealth and environmental importance, also its a region of conflict, since the preservation of his natural patrimony seems to argue with the possibilities of development of his population. Considered the biggest fluvial basin of the world, the Amazon region is one gigantic ecosystem of tropical forests that spreads on an area of seven million square kilometers. The experts consider to this the most rich biological reservation zone of the world, with several million species of insects, plants, birds and other forms of life, great of which have not been catalogued by the Science yet.

The development of the rubber was precisely his first big environmental conflict, due to the discriminate cut and chopping of the forest and the uncontrolled advance of the colonization. Then the petroleum ones came, miners, and others who look for the well payment of the cocathat can grow there.

The uncontrolled invasion of this territory during the last decades has provoked serious ecological unbalance , they havent realize of the importance of his biodiversity and native groups of peolpe that habit this space, many of which are in the danger of disappearing.

If the current human use of the forest, doesnt change and neither his protection, or reinforcement, the expert of the University Mines Gerais calculates that the size of the Amazonia will be reduce from 5,3 to 3,2 million square kilometers before the year 2050.

This are the new 7 social deadly sins of the vatican based on the problems of our time which most of them "or could be all" are being execute in the Amzonas (Colombia):

1. Violations bioethical (birth control) .

2. Experiments morally dubious (like stem cell research).

3. Drug Abuse .

4. Pollution of the environment .

5. Contributing to widen the gap between rich and poor.

6. Excessive Wealth and Richness.

7. Create Poverty.

• The 4 sin its the most executable in this Region.

Argumentative Essay

EXTINCTION

From 1998 the Department of the Environment, the Institute Alexander von Humboldt and the Institute of Natural Sciences of the National University, are employed at the ' Project Red Book of Species Threatened in Colombia .

This has the porpous to identify the species of the fauna and flora that need urgent measurements of protection to stop and to reduce the extinction and to guarantee the survival of these species. Colombia has been seeing the reduce number of some especies in the zone , for example some Amphibians like ( frogs ),or mammals like (pink dolphin), one of the most representative anumals of the territory. This is coused becouse of the furtive hunters, or deforestation in this region , where the people see a grate oportunity to make money taking advantage of the variety and quantity of beings.

We must changed our and others mind , and realize the importance of takin care of the planet by making programs in schools, and huge campaigns to educate people on this subject, but there are other ways too like punish the person that act on these illegal practice , like pay with years in jail and big quantives of money to prevent future killing.

We need to understand that we are one an age were the natural resources have decresing really fast becouse of the consumers and wasters and if we dont stop this we are going to be sorry for us and future generations.

The people who leave in this region it's very respectful in subjets of nature, contamination or pollution , this must be becouse of their sorroundings and the fact that they realize of the importance of the amazon jungle for all human kind. In recent studies shows that young people

Colombia

Introduccion "values "

None of us can avoid to notice the differences between the different cultures from the world. Different clothes, food, believes and social norms are rapidly identify. This also is observed easily in subjects of ethics and justice, and apparently they are modeled by the culture in which we lived.

You can quickly said, what is wrong or right based on the society believes and of corse, your thinking , but as we all know not all the people lives in the same region , country or continent , which means that, what is right to me , a colombian men , could not be right for other person in the other side of the world, and thats what makes us uniques. In Colombia we have a variety of cultures tints, which you can know by traveling around this beautifull country, and one great example is the Amazon jungles.

The Amazon Jungle is the biggest ecological reserve on the planet, which means it provides the biggest porcentage of good air that we breed,it is call the "Lungs of the world", is the place were you can view enormoous quantity of different plants and animal especies.

This region celebrates the "festival de la Cofrartenidad Amazónica" it's a week full of Sports, Culture, Beauty and lots of partys in our beautiful and peaceful city of Leticia, for example you can practice swimming, canoeing, kayak, fishing,and even room football also you can participate on ours folcloric dances , colombain crafts(artesanias) and lots of other activities. But in every travel you have to be prepare for climates an terrains so you must wear light and impervious clothes and with protection stuff like a knife, fire and food supplys if you are going to excursion because the weather is rainy , kind of wet with heavy air.