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
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Tanga Region. It carries out forestry research in four departments namely; Forest Plantation Management and Agro forestry‚ Forest Ecology‚ Forest Genetics and Forest Protection. Forest Plantation Management and Agro forestry is responsible for conducting research related to plantation forestry and agro forestry. Forest Ecology mainly deals with research in Botany‚ Herbarium and Natural Forests. The forest Forest Genetics has two sections namely: Seed and Nursery and Tree Breeding. Seed and
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The Kenyan Natural Resource Management project The project location is an area called Cherangany Hills‚ an area covered by rich forest and includes numerous national parks‚ swamps‚ lakes and conservation areas. A large indigenous population known as the Sengwer People‚ also called Cherangany or Dorobo by some are also from this area. This project that was intended for financial and industrial improvement of the native people of Cherangany Hills actually caused a lot of chaos and heartbreak and displacement
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the bushes and shrubs to die. 4. An explanation of the key biotic factors (species) that are found in the ecosystem? The biotic factors that are found in the rainforest are made up of the combination of heat and moisture makes the tropical rain forest the perfect environment for more than 15 million types of plants and animals. Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem. A biotic factor is any living component that affects another organism. 5. An overview of interrelationships
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which is environmentally . Deforestation and forest degradation are ultimately the result of decisions by agents made such as private ‚ corporations and communities. Generally‚ the main agents in the process of degradation belongs to the private sector. For example landowners are motivated by making commercial profits by forests. So if the private agents have to pay for some of the cost of depleting forests‚ they are more likely to have more of an incentive
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solved. Deforestation is the permanent devastation of forests. Deforestation happens in many ways: when trees are cut down to grow crops‚ logging so wood can be used for building things like houses‚ for roads and neighborhoods‚ and forest fires. Deforestation is affecting our country. At least eighty percent of our forests have been destroyed. Although there may be a need to cut down trees at some point‚ humans need to protect the forests and woodlands. Trees provide good things for humans and
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Rain Forests Rainforests cover only 6% of the earth’s surface but they house more than half of the world’s animal and plant population. Rainforests have beautiful layered ecosystems and water features that home massive amounts of living things. There is a very diverse food chain in rainforests. Deforestation is limiting what the rainforest can provide to the world. Rainforests are very large forests that help the earth in many ways. They house many plants‚ animals‚ insects‚ and even
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has a range of forest formations representing eight of the thirteen forest types found in tropical Asia‚ namely forest over ultramafic soils‚ forest over limestone soils‚ montane forest‚ freshwater swamp forest‚ lowland evergreen tropical rainforest‚ riverine forest‚ beach forest‚ and mangrove forest. Researchers have identified more than 800 plant species from 300 genera and 100 families. These include at least 295 trees dominated by the dipterocarp species. In the lowland forest‚ large trees such
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paper. The economic value of this income is invaluable to an industrialising country‚ as it is usually needed to pay off interest on debts from irresponsible lending in the 1970’s. Electrical power can be created by burning wood‚ thus large tracts of forests are destroyed to feed a growing demand for power by industry and people. To solve this power problem there have been many hydroelectric dams built to harvest the Amazon rivers power‚ for example the Tucurui hydroelectric dam built on the Tocantins
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(2001). Colonization of old-forest lichens in a young and an old boreal< i> Picea abies forest: an experimental approach. Biological Conservation‚ 102 (3)‚ 251-259. Chapin III‚ F. S.‚ Costanza‚ R.‚ Ehrlich‚ P. R.‚ Golley‚ F. B.‚ Hooper‚ D. U.‚ Lawton‚ J. H.‚ ... & Tilman‚ D. (1999). Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: maintaining natural life support processes. Washington‚ DC: Ecological Society of America. Hazelbaker‚ J. (2008). Logging on national forests national forest management zero cut – no
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