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The people who call the Amazon rainforest home are known as "native Amazonians". They live by a process called "shifting cultivation", where they live in one area and farm it and move on to a new area when the land is no longer cultivable. This method does not harm the forest and allows it to recover naturally. The native people use the wood and foliage of the forest to build huge houses. They cut down trees to create farmland and gain the materials they need to build and feed the fires. The ashes from the fires are returned to the ground and provide all kinds of nutrients for the soil. Everything the people take from the forest they give back in one way or another, making their way of life very economically friendly and not harmful to the forest. Native Amazonians do not just farm crops such as manioc, yams, beans and pumpkins, they also hunt and fish. After five harvests, the land is too damaged to use again and the people more on, however due to the increasing use of the forest by commercial businesses, the land available to these people to farm has reduced and the native people are forced to return to areas they have already used before it has had time to fully recover (a process that takes up to 50 years).

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