| Aspect | Native Americans (Amazon Basin) | Lumberjacks (Canadian Forests) |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Mainly engaged in Shifting Cultivation, hunting and food gathering. | Lumberjacks practice lumbering, i.e. cutting, processing or exporting wood from trees. |
| Lifestyle | Lead a forest-based life, depend on the forest for food, clothing, shelter and medicines. | Lead a commercial and industrial lifestyle, working for companies that extract forest resources. |
| Tools and Techniques | Primitive equipments like bows, arrows, spears and traps | Earlier equipments used- chainsaws, feller-bunchers and so on. Nowadays, modern logging equipment is used. |
| Purpose | Livelihood is based on self-sufficiency and survival. | Livelihood is based on earning wages and export-oriented timber trade. |
| Environmental Impact | Depletion of the rainforest due to Shifting agriculture. | Logging leads to deforestation and ecological imbalance. |