The settlers are people that move to the rainforest to find farmland and harvest crops to get out of poverty. They clear out land to make room for new farms. Some settlers chop/cut down trees for wood, but some of the wood goes to waste because they never use it. The government is allowing them to settle in the rainforest.Their interest in the rainforest is create land off of the rainforest to live off of because there is no where else to live.