Deforestation began in Brazil at the time of colonization, with the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500. Interested in profit from the sale of Brazil wood in Europe, the settlers began exploration of the Atlantic Forest. This wood was used for making furniture and musical instruments; the red sap of pau-brasil was also used to dye cloth. Since then, deforestation in Brazil has become constant.

After the AtlanticForest, it was the turn of the Amazon rainforest to suffer the consequences of illegal logging. In search of hardwoods like mahogany, for example, specialized companies settled in the Amazon region to illegal logging. A recent report by WWF, an NGO dedicated to the environment, noted that in 2000, deforestation in the Amazon has already reached 13% of the original. But the case of the Atlantic is even more tragic, because only 9% of the forest survived the original cover, 1500.

Despite the cases of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest are the most important in Brazil, it is important to remember that deforestation occurs in the four corners of the planet and so Eco Máquinas is concerned with environmental awareness. This problem is not unique to a single region, because the world deforestation has happened or is happening. In developing countries, particularly in Asian such as China, almost all the vegetation has been explored. United States and Russia also destroyed their forests over time and so on.

The forests are the richest and most diverse habitat on the planet; however, they have become the main victims of "progress" often mistakenly headed by men's own hand. The forests around the world are being decimated at an incredible pace, every year; millions of hectares are completely destroyed, bringing drastic consequences to the ecosystem. In addition to predatory logging for commercial purposes, various forms of human activity have also caused deforestation.

An example is the use of burning for the healing of blocks and bricks, but also occurs in so-called agricultural fronts, even forbidden to burn forests protected by law, many farmers cut down kilometers of trees to enlarge the areas for livestock or cultivation, and get more profit. It is good to remember that with the ecological bricks that does not happen, because your healing is done by means of the waters, therefore, it does not affect the environment in any way. (Access Link Soil-Cement - Healing)

It is important to note that deforestation releases greenhouse gases to the environment, resulting in global warming, because when the tree is cut and burned, it releases into the atmosphere the carbon dioxide (CO 2) that was in it. That is how most of the greenhouse gas emissions in the world happen, because despite the green plants absorb CO 2 during the process of photosynthesis, unfortunately nowadays, an amount of gas which is much larger than the capacity of the plants to fight has been released. According to the report of the UN, the consequences of massive deforestation in regions such as Asia, which reaches about 28,000 square kilometers per year, should be reversed with the utmost urgency to combat global warming and changes change.

Deforestation in a region can also cause the desertification process, in other words, formation of deserts and arid regions. In Brazil, this process has occurred in recent decades, in the northeastern jungle and scrub of Tocantins. Deforestation is a major cause of loss of biodiversity on the planet and is contributing to the mass extinction of species, much higher than what could be considered normal in evolutionary time. The woods and forests are critical to the ecological balance of planet Earth and for the proper climatic functioning. We hope that humanity become aware of these problems and begin to realize that the maintenance of life on Earth depends on your own attitudes, so it is need to invest in measures to prevent deforestation.

The theory of sustainable development, which aims to promote economic growth jointly with the preservation of the environment, is also being increasingly disseminated and exploited by government policies around the world. This practice has not only environmentalists in its defense, but also business visionaries who understand that environmental deterioration is directly related to job insecurity and falling levels of quality of life of the population. In this sense, the awareness becomes key to preserving the environment and consequently, humanity itself and it is thinking about it, that Eco Máquinas' Team, develops a job which is related to socio-environmental responsibility.