The Devastation of Deforestation According to National Geographic‚ forests cover about thirty percent of the Earth’s land area. This percentage is falling drastically. Deforestation is the process of forests being cleared through logging and/or burning to use for timber or to use the area for other purposes. Many estimate that the Earth’s rainforests will be completely wiped out in 100 years. The World Wildlife Fund is the leading organization in the fight to prevent deforestation. Along with protesting
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called deforestation. Deforestation is when people burn or cut down a group of trees. It has many negative effects on environment such as climate change‚ clearing of habitats‚ and killing millions of species. The trees are used for fuel‚ to create commercial items such as paper‚ and highly prized items such as palm oil from palm trees. “Deforestation in Amazon Basin is destroying the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area.” Deforestation is not
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Rainforest Deforestation LA298: Associate Degree Capstone June 30‚ 2012 Rainforest Deforestation The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate and the consequences could be devastating. Global climate change is accelerating‚ due in part to deforestation of the rainforests around the world which help to maintain the hydrologic cycle of the Earth‚ and play a large part in cleaning the air that the population breathes. There exists a diverse collection of species in these ecosystems
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has one of the highest deforestation rates in South America‚ second only to Brazil. This effect is seen particularly in eastern Bolivia where the interregional effects of Brazilian policy and infrastructure can easily be felt across the border. Bolivia‚ as well as other regions in the Amazon are largely inhabited by a wide variety of indigenous cultures that depend on the natural resources of a region for their livelihood and existence. The largest factor in rapid deforestation and desertification
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Effects of Deforestation The subject of deforestation and the effects that it has on the environment have been heavily debated for a long time; particularly over the last few years. Governments and large lumber companies see large profits in the mass deforestation of forests and state that their actions are having few‚ if any‚ harmful effects on the environment. Most people disagree with this and think that the environmental effects are devastating and will become irreversibly disastrous in the
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Lesson II – Effects of Deforestation Deforestation is the removal or destruction of large areas of forest or rainforest. Deforestation happens for many reasons‚ such as logging‚ agriculture‚ natural disasters‚ urbanization and mining. There are several ways to clear forest -- burning and clear-cutting the land are two methods. Although deforestation occurs worldwide‚ it’s a particularly critical issue in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. There‚ the tropical forests‚ and the species of plants and
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causing environmental damage because those in power has to learn to associate positive economic growth with a healthy environment‚ An estimated 13 million surface of forests were lost each year between 2000 and 2010 due to deforestation. In tropical rainforests particularly‚ deforestation continues to be an urgent environmental issue that jeopardizes people’s livelihoods‚ threatens species‚ and intensifies global warming. Forests make a vital contribution to humanity‚ but their full potential will only
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Hannah Pilon Due Date: Friday February 8‚ 2013 Winter Term Library Assignment: Deforestation Marcus‚ B. A. (2009). Tropical forests. (pp. 125-135). Sudbury‚ MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. 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
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Questions The research questions that this study wants to approach are as follows: RQ#1: Why does deforestation rampantly occur in less developed and poor countries such as Honduras? RQ#2: How does deforestation in Honduras contributes to global warming that leads to natural catastrophes? Methodology This study achieved its findings by analyzing the severity of deforestation in Honduras based on those areas which have already reported severe forest damages and are already alerting
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Deforestation in Costa Rica Costa Rica is famous for it’s rainforests and vast biodiversity and ecosystems‚ including 12‚000 species of plants‚ 1‚239 species of butterflies‚ 838 species of birds‚ 440 species of reptiles and amphibians‚ and 232 species of mammals (Wikipedia)‚ which overtime have become under threat due to deforestation. Since the end of World War II‚ 80 percent of Costa Rican forests have disappeared (Wikipedia). Various companies are cutting down forests‚ to provide
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