Deforestation is the amputation of trees from forest areas more
swiftly than they can be replanted or regenerate naturally. The fact
that trees play an incredibly momentous part in stabilising climate,
atmospheric composition and soil structure, removing trees rapidly
becomes a major problem.
There are numerous reasons behind the felling of trees by mankind. The
Amazon basin is a prime example of humans exploiting rainforests.
Within this tropical rainforest lie a vast variety of tree species,
with many uses, giving humans even more reason to exploit this area.
Timber and especially hardwoods like mahogany and ebony are being
felled at an alarming rate to satisfy the needs of the swiftly
developing world. Another problem for the forest areas of the world is
the type of agriculture used by some peasant farmers known as "slash &
burn". This method of farming involves the burning of trees to add to
the initial supply of nutrients in the soil. Over time this supply
slowly wares down and so the farmer once again moves onto another plot
of trees to slash and burn. This cycle is repeated over and over every
time the nutrient supply becomes exhausted. As you can now figure out
the forest areas (of which still remain!!) are being destroyed at a
large scale and at a rapid speed.
Underground resources such as iron and aluminium ores are used a great
deal in the industries of the developing countries. To obtain and
transport has to be quick, easy and the cost has to minimal. To make
all these possible roads are being built through forests. These cause
a great deal of damage to the forests because more trees have to be
removed again to mine this merchandise. Brazil is once again a prime
example of forest destruction. The population of poor shanty towns are
being encouraged by the governments to move to the forested area. This
once again means the felling of trees. You can work out that only 1 of
the forests in the world is being destroyed by humans in so many
A good view the Truax had was that for every tree cut down, 5 more are planted. It is a fact that newer trees give off more air than older trees, so cutting down the older trees
Deforestation in Costa Rica is done for many reasons, but one of the biggest reasons is for economical gain. Costa Rica is a third world country so money for the government is tight. “Wood is very easy to extract and tends to have a very high value”(PersonalColby). And because most of Costa Rica is a dense rainforest, the use of the wood for money is being used. The deforestation of Costa Rica affects the rest of the world because with the removal of the forests also comes the destruction of the ways we regain oxygen after exhaling carbon dioxide. “The resource of wood is know as a renewable and nonrenewable resource” (fao). This is because the tree is a plant and another one can grow, but not at the speed in which humans right now use the wood. “It takes within 65 years for a small region of a rainforest to regenerate”(rainforestmaker).
In the world today, trees are being destroyed at a far greater rate than they are being planted. People watch as forests that house many animals are annihilated in a few short weeks as if these forests were meaningless. The worse part is that people rejoice that the trees are being removed, because there will be a new building created soon that will open up opportunities for businesses. The people don’t care that animals lost their homes, or maybe they don’t realize it. The same goes for the loss of native species. Again, is it that people don’t care, or do they not realize the destruction they’re doing? Deforestation has a negative connotation, and it should. This is why people decide to instead say they’re “developing” the land. People are
Therefore, a large amount of trees were cut down and led to forest destruction. People have done these kinds of activities for many years and these deforestation activities have brought about a lot of permanent and long term issues. Although the society has started to consider the problem of deforestation, it is not easy to solve the issues completely. Land desertification can be a huge area and it almost cannot be controlled. In addition, it is not only threatening the people and animals in the Amazon, the world is also threatened by deforestation.
The rain forests also provide important exports such as oil, nuts, and rubber. Brazilian nuts have become an important export and coffee has been South America’s main source of money. After Charles Goodyear learned how to use rubber to benefit humans the demand for it increased. The Amazon began to provide rubber for tires made around the world. Today the Amazon still provides the world with a large supply of rubber. Deforestation of rain forests decreases the amount of rubber South America supplies, and businesses will soon have to find a new supply of this resource.
Adding to the devastating effect of mans obsessive consumption of wood was the needless destruction of natural forests during times of war, leaving lasting scars of barren earth which would take hundreds of years to recover. World War One also had severe impacts on forested areas due to the devastation of mass bombing and fire clearing.
First of all I would have to say that yes it has a great impact on our global warming and I will go on to explain to you how it affects our planet. We as a whole have let the dollar get in the way of how our planet is affected, some would say at all costs. It is true we have refineries, car pollution, but most of all deforestation of tropical areas. In the National Geographic Magazine you will come to see and appreciate the facts of how deforestation has affected our nation and has spiraled into global warming. We can look at Brazil’s rainforest that is estimated to be larger than two hundred football fields it will be destroyed before you are even able to read the article at hand (Magazine, 1996-2014). It has been noted that within the past 40 years we have managed to do more damage than what was done in the four hundred and fifty (450) years since the European Colonization even began. That sent chills through my bones when I read that, imagine how much tropical areas have been affected. We have destroyed twen...
Environmental issues affect every life on this planet from the smallest parasite to the human race. There are many resources that humans and animal needs to survive; some of the most obvious resources come from the forests. Forests make up a large percentage of the globe. The forests have global implications not just on life but on the quality of it. Trees improve the quality of the air that species breath, determine rainfall and replenish the atmosphere. The wood from the forests are used everyday form many useful resources. Moreover, thinning the forests increases the amount of available light, nutrients and water for the remaining trees. Deforestation (forest thinning) is one of the most critical issues of environmental problems that are occurring today.
Introduction Deforestation is a complex interconnected global issue which presents many detrimental consequences for society, the global economy and the biological community. Despite the damaging effects of deforestation society and the economy will always place demands on the forests resources (Lambin and Mayfroidt, 2011). Thus to curtail the environmental burdens of deforestation we need to educate citizens for a sustainable future. As individuals begin to understand the interdependent relationship between their actions and their implications globally and locally, current trends of outsourcing forests and land internationally will begin to change. This report will firstly explore the implications of deforestation locally in the City of Edinburgh
Though deforestation has increased at an alarming rate throughout the past fifty years, deforestation has been performed during the course of history. According to the World Resources Institute, a majority of the world’s enduring naturally occurring forests are found in Alaska, Canada, Russia and the Northwestern Amazon. Research has demonstrated forests are more likely to be destroyed and repurposed where economic revenues tied to agriculture and pasture are prominent, typically attributed to advantageous weather conditions, or lower expenses of demolishing the forest and delivering merchandises to the global
There is powerful evidence showing that clearing tress not only spews carbon into the atmosphere, it also leads to major shifts such as increased temperatures and rainfall worldwide
centuries. Today with an increasing population the amount of wood available has declined seriously in recent decades. People have been harvesting wood to cultivate land, burn, and for the use of raw materials for industry (Urquhart 2014). The estimated amount of deforestation taking place is twenty million hectares per year (Urquhart 2014). Climate change and global warming are just a few of the problems associated with the degradation of our forests.
Solutions to the Problem of Deforestation Personal: There are many things that one can do personally to rectify the problem of Deforestation. These include such things as using wood sparingly, planting indigenous trees, purchasing the most ecologically sensitive products, recycling paper, reducing consumption of wood related products, communicating your opinions to the proper authorities, calling on forestry companies to act responsibly, and more. Education, however is the most effective catalyst for change, we must respect the forests as living communities not just resources to be exploited. Government: There are many things that governments are doing to rectify this problem. Probably the most effective of these are Forest Protection Schemes, Farm Forestry and plantations, and Raising Awareness/Education.
The single biggest direct cause of tropical deforestation is conversion to cropland and pasture, mostly for subsistence, which is growing crops or raising livestock to meet daily needs. The conversion to agricultural land usually results from multiple direct factors. For example, countries build roads into remote areas to improve overland transportation of goods. The road development itself causes a limited amount of deforestation. But roads also provide entry to previously inaccessible—and often unclaimed—land. Logging, both legal and illegal, often follows road expansion (and in some cases is the reason for the road expansion). When loggers have harvested an area’s valuable timber, they move on. The roads and the logged areas become a magnet for settlers—farmers and ranchers who slash and burn the remaining forest for cropland or cattle pasture, completing the deforestation chain that began with road building. In other cases, forests that have been degraded by logging become fire-prone and are eventually deforested by repeated accidental fires from adjacent farms or pastures.
Commercial logging for lumber or fuel supplies is another factor. The cutting down of trees for a profit is also depleting our forests. Another travesty of commercial logging is the damage caused to other trees that surround or are in the path of the trees being harvested. Logging also increases the destruction to forests in the event of fire as outline in the article entitled “Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates and Consequences” written by Philip M. Fearnside, “Logging greatly increase the susceptibility of forest to fire. Once fire enters it kills trees and increase...