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Kappreccia Davis The Greenbelt Movement
The Greenbelt Movement
Kappreccia Davis
Grantham University

The Greenbelt Movement Wangari Maathai is a smart and courageous woman she has helped her community and inspired the world in so many ways. She has helped the environment become much stronger and heathier so her people can leave better and won’t have to suffer. In my essay I’m going to talk about how she helped them and what work she did to make the environment better place to live.to make the forest more sustainably and how the governments and individuals can reduce tropical deforestation.
There are many was to we can use the forests more sustainably which means using and caring for forests in ways that meet daily needs while protecting the forests for the future. Sustainable methods are not the same everywhere. Each community needs to find what works best for them and for their forest. Making a sustainable forest management plan helps a community decide how best to use their forest. It can also help resist threats to the forest by industry or the government.
Sometimes, you can get a better price for forest products if you can show they were produced sustainably. But the most important part of a sustainable forest management plan is that it helps local people work together to use and protect forests. How to use and protect the forest at the same time is a good question here are my ideas? Tree thinning this will help by allowing the more sunlight in the forest so the plants you want can grow. Selective logging which means cutting only some trees , while saving young trees and some healthy older trees to hold soil and provide seed for the future. Planting green space in smaller areas of trees in places where most trees have been cut down, or where the forest is completely gone, is a way to improve the soil, water, and air even in populated cities and towns. Last but not least you can support natural regrowth will help the forest by limiting the use of areas where too many trees have been

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