Deforestation is the elimination of forest and woodland areas on the large scale. Deforestation emerged as a major problem because of large scale losses evident particularly in tropical regions. Evidence of deforestation dates back much further than modern times‚ owing to the fact that deforestation is also a natural process. Uganda is a small African country located in East Africa and is crossed by equator in the south. The location in the equatorial region‚ a number of lakes in the country
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PROTECTED AREA BY FOREST A protected forest is a specific term to denote forests with some amount of legal‚ and / or constitutional protection in certain countries. Forests have been used by humans since the beginning of civilization for hunting‚ harvesting trees and other activities. As populations grew there became a need to manage forests for the benefit of humans as well as the animals‚ plants and insects that live in them. Conservation forestry is the part of forestry that focuses on protecting
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[edit] Minerals and oil Materials removed from the Earth are needed to provide humans with food‚ clothing‚ and housing and to continually upgrade the standard of living. Some of the materials needed are renewable resources‚ such as agricultural and forestry products‚ while others are nonrenewable‚ such as minerals. The USGS reported in Materials Flow and Sustainability (1998) that the number of renewable resources is decreasing‚ meanwhile there is an increasing demand for nonrenewable resources
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Deforestation is the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and woodlands. The term does not include the removal of industrial forests such as plantations of gums or pines. Deforestation has resulted in the reduction of indigenous forests to four-fifths of their pre-agricultural area. Indigenous forests now cover 21% of the earth’s land surface. In a forest the crowns of individual trees touch to form a single canopy. In a woodland‚ trees grow far apart‚ so that the canopy is open.
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not suited for long-term farming or ranching and they quickly degrade once the forest has been cut and burnt. Unlike the fertile soils of temperate latitudes‚ most tropical forest soils cannot sustain annual cropping. The carrying capacity of the soil will not support intensive annual cropping without rapid‚ irreversible degradation. Similarly‚ intensive cattle grazing cannot be supported because grasses grown on forest soils do not have the same productivity levels as those on arable soils. In fact
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agricultural expansion‚ urbanization‚ and the extraction of wood. Currently‚ the biggest cause is agricultural expansion which turned the forest into pastures and cropland to meet the growing needs for food. A study shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from forests. When they cut and burn down the forest to make it farmland‚ it creates carbon which increases global warming. The rainforest only cover about 7 percent of the Earth‚ but has
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Biodiversity: Deforestation Deforestation is a threat to biodiversity because deforestation increases the chances of animal/plant extinction. In the Amazon‚ around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years. Causes of Deforestation Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forest in order to make the land available for other uses such as… For fuel Space for housing and urbanization To create commercial items such as paper‚ furniture‚ and homes To create rare and highly priced
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to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO 2015)‚ an estimated 18 million acres 7.3 million surface of forest are lost each year the United States cannot continue to grow and develop without 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
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everything" he was taking Santiago’s experience. Maybe the writer’s intention to say that the boy was not taking care of Santiago to teach him ‚but just he loved him. Also‚ when Santiago said "he was a fish to keep man all Winter" perhaps he meant usually in Winter he‚ as a fisherman‚ could not gain fish because of the bad weather that prevent him from having fish. Repeating the sentence ’I wish I had the boy’ shows us more than one meaning. Either Santiago wanted to tell that the
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trees to create a forest on non-forest land. It is different fromreforestation‚ which is replanting trees where a forest has been depleted. The main purposes for implementing afforestation are commercial forestry and environmental restoration or preservation. When afforestation is used for commercial purposes‚ it usually involves planting and harvesting of trees as agricultural crops. Areas where this is done are known as plantation forests. Harvesting trees from plantation forests helps to reduce
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