Tree Plantations Introduction For over 10‚000 years‚ man has been the greatest factor affecting biodiversity through habitat destruction and fragmentation‚ overexploitation and pollution. With an ever increasing population and human activities‚ man is consuming more and more natural resources by increasing the use of energy‚ fuel‚ and production of consumer products that are not necessarily needed. Man is very egotistic and believes that he owns everything that he has discovered; using most
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Savannas are located in many parts of the world‚ especially in Africa. Nearly half of Africa is considered to be a Savanna‚ it is the largest of them all. The African Savanna biome is located between latitudes of 15 degrees North and 30 degrees South. Here‚ the ecosystem includes warm temperatures year-round with high seasonal rain in the summer. Dry seasons bring about four inches of rain and occur about seven months in the year. In the months of October to March this dry period happens in the southern
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In Detroit‚ Michigan of 2002 many ash trees in the hardwood forests of Michigan and in urban areas were unexpectedly dying prematurely and researchers began investigating the problem. As they investigated trees‚ they found tunnels throughout the inside of the tree. The problem turned out to be an insect no longer than 12 millimeters known as the emerald ash borer. Many 10s of millions of dollars have been spent and more than 200 million trees have died or have been sacrificed in efforts to eradicate
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If you fear one of the trees in your yard has one of the many North American tree diseases that are plaguing a variety of tree species‚ you want to call the experts to have the tree treated or removed. If the tree is already dying‚ you’ll want to have it removed from your property. A dying tree can cause a lot of problems for you and around the property. Here are a few reasons why you should consider immediate removal. Prevent Liability Issues There are a variety of things that can go wrong when
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Benefits of Afforestation : It restores ecological balance of all eco systems. It maintains biological diversity It act as catchments for the soil and water conservation Plating tress can stabilize soils by increasing interception Prevent floods and safeguard future of the tribal people. Bring soil together and prevent soil erosion. Afforestation act as windbreaks Stabilized the climate and the forest products. There is the constant need to develop massive afforestation programmes for the
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The rainforest is a beautiful place filled with fauna and flora. Is the rainforest being destroyed? In a matter of fact it is. It is caused by many reasons. The three most popular ones are logging‚ construction and especially furniture. This essay will discuss how we are destroying the rainforest. The most significant danger to the rainforest of the three that will be outlined in this essay is logging. Logging can be used for many things. People mostly take up logging for the cold hard cash. But
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4.5 Environmental Assessment: Forest Road Surface and Ditches Network One of the main objectives of this study is to investigate some intensity road characteristics based on ZEB1 LiDAR data. These intensity characteristics are the area with construction problems and the extent of the ditches network. As road construction problems here we consider the peaks and the depressions on the road surface that affect the transportation. In order to evaluate the flatness of the road surface we can make use
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The trees of the Amazon forest should not be cut down for any reason because this would create many problems for Rubber Tappers. In this research paper‚ the reasons to not cut down the trees will be explained. Some of those reasons are because for one the Rubber tappers make a living working in the forest‚ also the seeds of the trees where the rubber tappers get the sap from was stolen by a nefarious Englishman and made the rubber tappers that work in the Brazil industry collapse so the rubber tappers
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Nowadays‚ what do you usually see in the television? In front of the headlines of newspaper? The one which everyone’s talking about‚ Showbiz? Lifestyles? Business? No‚ the most top news air last year was all about disaster brought by typhoons which leaves vast destructions not only in properties but also loss of thousands of lives. Our country‚ the Philippines has been blessed with natural resources where other countries don’t have. Time by time‚ Filipinos have learned to utilize these resources
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Land is a renewable resource. Cropping. As the name The land however should be preserved and wisely used so that it will maintain its fertility and continue to be conservation used. Conservation of the land Replanting of vegetation after mining and quarrying activities. Controlling lumbering which ensures that
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