There are many management strategies to combat deforestation, popular choices are; legislation, ecotourism, selective logging and various tree regeneration schemes.…
This chapter was very informative and gave a lot of information about the reasons of deforestation. I knew that logging and agriculture were major causes of deforestation, but this chapter taught me that mining too is also a big factor. The author was very knowledgeable about this subject and wrote in a way that was very easy to understand. This chapter also gave a very thorough explanation of the impacts of deforestation on the lands. Through this chapter, the author explains how just because a few trees are cut down, the water supply diminishes and can lead to drought as well as many other issues that I did not know about. This is probably my favourite source about this deforestation problem as it was easy to understand and the author did not drag out his writing and got to the point very quickly. It was a good read!…
The main idea of the article is the affect of deforestation on the environment, wildlife and climate change. Deforestation results in soil deterioration. Forests store nutrients that are required for all plant life. Without trees to fill these roles, many forest’s lands can quickly become barren deserts. Deforestation also impacts the habitat for million species. Majority of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. Deforestation also drives climate change. Forest soils are moist, but without protection from sun-blocking tree cover they quickly dry out. Trees also help conserve the water cycle by returning water vapor back into the atmosphere. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Cutting down forests will cause a decline in photosynthetic activity which results in the…
Last September there was a UN Climate Summit held in New York where scores of countries, companies and non-profit organizations joined together to halve the deforestation by 2020 and completely eliminate it by 2030. This shows as the necessity to prevent deforestation. There are several ways to bring down the rate of deforestation which we will research in deep later in this project.…
Deforestation is an issue we need to fix. I would like to spend 100,000 dollars on deforestation because some of the trees that are being cut down are thousands of years old. “Any fool can destroy trees”(John Muir, “The American Forests,” Atlantic Monthly, August, 1897) Above all this, one fact remains the same, we need trees to live. If we destroy all the trees in the world, we are left with harsh living conditions for ourselves. Our forests should be preserved if we want a better nation.…
It is said, that forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet (WWF). Reducing the number of trees and the surface area of a forest is called deforestation. Deforestation is one of the biggest problems in today’s economic system. There may be a lot of positives behind the idea of cutting down trees; however they are all outnumbered by the negatives. If one is not careful with the removal of a forest, it may lead to more deserted areas.…
Deforestation is one of the biggest ways in which we are depleting the earth of the lungs that uses to purify the atmosphere and clean the environment of carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas that contributes to a rising global temperature. (4) The rainforest act as natural cleaners of the environment and help the atmosphere and ourselves by transforming carbon dioxide into Oxygen with the help of the Sun. Nowadays about twenty percent of the greenhouse gases are the effect of tropical rainforest deforestation alone. The way that deforestation impacts our world also affects the water cycle of earth as trees from rainforest whom used to extract groundwater from the earth and release it into the atmosphere are cut down and now unable to do so. Deforestation makes soils become eroded and thru rain…
In all rainforest regions in the world, deforestation has become a major problem. The rainforest is arguably the most complicated and largely interwoven ecosystem on land. However, this treasure is being lost and demolished day by day, the land being cleared away for the pure interest of money making, in the process of deforestation. Not only are thousands of species of organisms being driven to extinction, but we are also effectively eliminating any chance of studying many of the species. Also, deforestation has a major impact on the atmospheric balance of the world, and if it continues at the rate it is now, then soon the world's entire way of living will be forced to change, and not for the good. If the people of the world do not begin to be more contentious, then soon rainforests will become nothing more than a glorious legend of the past.…
IN ORDER TO STOP THE deforestation OF trees FROM THE rainforest ECOSYSTEM, PEOPLE NEED TO STOP using as much paper products in their household. IN ORDER TO STOP THE deforestation OF trees FROM THE rainforest ECOSYSTEM, PEOPLE NEED TO STOP using as much paper products in their household. The first part the campaign has to make people feel ashamed and guilty for deforestation of tropical rainforest. The people cutting the trees make it seem like it is good for animals and plants, but really it’s damaging the ecosystem especially animals and plants. Some of the species can go endangered or extinct, like the Chimpanzee they live in the trees to escape their predators and for a home. At least 137 species of insects, plants, and animals are going extinct. Once people realize that deforestation is bad for the ecosystem. They will feel bad for doing that to animals and plants. They will reduce the use of paper products.…
Human beings harm against nature turns to be an undeniable issue. That has been happening in numerous ways for years, one of which is deforestation. Cutting down all the trees in a large area is called as deforestation. There are several reasons for damaging the forests. However, the most significant factor is human activities. These activities have some severe effects on forests. As indicated in “Deforestation: World Revolution”, today 31 million hectares of rain forests are destroyed every year which corresponds to area that is bigger than Poland (2003). Deforestation appears to be a significant issue and activated by following factors: shifting cultivation, commercial logging and clear-cutting.…
To illustrate my point, when the land is damaged because of deforestation, the chances for regeneration of plants and the species habitat are in danger. The chopping and cutting down of trees on a continuous base damage and kill the seeds natural reproduction,…
Deforestation is a construction that human cut down the trees to make land available for other uses. It is also considered to be one of the contributing factors to global climate change. Without trees, forestlands can quickly become barren land. We are losing the oxygen produced by the trees and it takes hundreds of years in the making to grow another one. Nowadays, each country is facing the deforestation problems. Looking at the core concept of deforestation in Amazon through both sides, we can find its causes and effects.…
We humans cause deforestation by cutting down trees for fuel, paper, and other products. The use of wood and charcoal only adds to the already vast amount of polluted gases in the atmosphere. Deforestation is another cause and effect meaning we should protect our trees to stop the greenhouse effect, and so we can breathe. The leading factors for deforestation is the need for space for homes and buildings, and soil erosion.…
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, the overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture. Deforestation has negative effects on everyone and everything. Oxygen production is drastically lowered with every tree cut down, and the less trees there are, the less regulated the temperature of the Earth is. The amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is adding to the greenhouse gases and trapping more heat in the earth’s atmosphere and causing global warming. Furthermore, Deforestation doesn’t just threaten our climate; it threatens the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people that rely on forests for food and economic activity. Forests also serve as habitats to rare and undiscovered animal and plant species and play a key role in providing water and preventing flooding and erosion. Ending deforestation and protecting forests will not only preserve biodiversity and defend the rights of forest communities; it is also one of the quickest and cost effective ways of curbing global warming. Ways in which we can reduce deforestation are (1) planting trees; by doing this you can be sure that with every tree that is cut down one is there to replace it also it changes tones of atmospheric carbon into wood and other fibrous tissue, thus reducing global warming. (2) Using both sides of…
Deforestation has many negative effects on the environment. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species. Seventy percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.…