mining‚ and oil and gas companies are yelling "timber‚" because trees are being leveled more often than the forest can sustain. Furthermore‚ North America’s boreal forest is being harvested at a rate of roughly 2.5 million acres a year. This rapid deforestation in many areas of the boreal forest is robbing animals‚ including boreal birds and woodland caribou‚ of their food sources and secure breeding grounds. Human development has ended up in a decline in certain animal species that rely on the boreal
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The Earth itself is the controversy of this generation. The media sends out snapshots of waterfowl drowning in oil spills‚ charts outlining the deforestation of Brazil’s rainforests‚ and articles concerning the fate of polar bears in a world already locked into global warming. As governments and independent groups alike attempt to tackle these issues‚ one of the world’s most at-risk habitats is being overlooked. Human activity has destroyed over twenty percent of the world’s coral reefs and if conservation
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food supplies. Two thirds of the Sudanese population lives within 300km of the capital city Khartoum and the signs of overpopulation are obvious in this region of Sudan. The rising population depends on wood fuel for cooking and this has led to deforestation of the region. Increasing numbers of people keep cattle and grow crops on the land. Population growth is leading to a rise in cattle numbers and over-cultivation of land. The cattle trample the soil and eat the grass cover that makes it less fertile
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minerals the increasing quarrying and mining activities lead to land pollution. The excavation and mining activities leads to loosening of soil. Increased mechanization leads to contamination of soil‚ thus causing severe land pollution. Deforestation is one of the major causes of loosening the soil that in turn causing soil erosion. The soil that is left their naked on harvesting crops from agricultural lands is vulnerable to being eroded by wind and water. Intensive agricultural causes the
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Now‚ as the process of tropical deforestation progresses‚ the population of these amazing Macaw Parrots is decreasing because they are greatly dependent upon these very forests to provide them with food and nesting sites. For the last 100 years‚ over half the world’s tropical forests have been destroyed. And it is estimated that worldwide‚ 26 hectares of forest are lost every minute - that’s an area equivalent to 37 football pitches. Macaw Parrots nest high up in dead trees into which they gnaw
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logging companies‚ and land owners. Because of our greedy nature‚ we destroy 137 plant‚ animal and insect species every single day. If you don’t want to be part of this “we”‚ and feel you show some kind of response to the life threatening process of deforestation‚ read on. Still reading? Now we’ll go on to a topic closer to home‚ namely the Amazon Rainforest. While the trees are being chopped down and the ground being dug up of all its resources‚ another group of people are also benefited by the largest
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The environmental crisis is largely due to the fact that we use too much resources‚ reuse too little of them and produce too much waste. There are four factors that have contributed to this situation: human activites such as agriculture and industry‚ population explosion‚ technological advances and modern lifestyle. Human activities like agriculture and industry have been a great impact on the environment. Agriculture needs lots of land for growing crops and rearing of animals. Because of this‚
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The North Cascade Mountains are a vital part of Washington’s environmental function and beauty. They are being threatened by deforestation and mining. The clear-cutting of the forest would result in loss of wildlife and biodiversity due to loss of habitat and environmental “disruption”. Mining is potentially dangerous to water supplies which in turn affect the animals that live in and drink from them. Washingtonians are attempting to preserve two hundred thousand acres of land surrounding the North
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“Charcoal burning has degraded Puntland’s environment” _________________________________________ CHARCOAL BURNING HAS DEGRADED PUNTLAND’S ENVIRONMENT “ARTICLE” _______________________________________ “This Article about Puntland’s Environmental degradation which have always been challenges in the management of the natural resources‚ have accelerated during the last two decades due to an increasing number of causes as well as their combined effects and how charcoal burning has degraded Puntland’s
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in coastal villages. Mangroves have particularly suffered from coastal development‚ notably at the hands of the aquaculture industry. In the Philippines‚ aquaculture has reduced mangrove stands to only 36% of 1900 levels. Deforestation After decades of deforestation‚ which has left about 3% of the original cover‚ forests continue to be under threat from agriculture and urbanization‚ illegal logging and forest fires. Sustained forest loss in the Philippines is causing severe soil erosion
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