What Are the Real Problems and Issues That Are Being Reported?

What are the real problem or issue that being reported?
The year 2011 is “The Year of Forests”. This designated has generated momentum bringing greater attention to the forests worldwide. Forests cover almost a third the the earth’s land surface providing many environment benefits including a major role in the hydrologic cycle, soil conservation, prevention of climate change and preservation of biodiversity (Sheram, 1993). According to (Anon), the forest resources can provide long-term national economic benefit for example at least 145 countries involve in wood supplying. The real problem is that being reported recently is deforestation where the trees in the forest being cut down without limitation and minimum quota, thus this causing disturbance to ecosystem. We should know that, ecosystem must be maintained and constant because ecosystem supported the balance of the World. Deforestation mean the conversion of the forest to an alternative permanent non-forested land use such as agriculture, grazing or urban development (Van Kooten and Bulte, 2000). As the area of the forest shrinking, it will causing the loss of biodiversity (Angelsen et al., 1999). FOA said that plantation of the trees provide primary for timber production however they do not consider about non-timber products (Anon, 2010). Thirty per cent of the earth’s land area or about 3.9 billion hectares is covered by forests. It was estimated that the original forest cover was approximately six billion hectares.

What are the causes of the problem? How did it happen?
According to Professor Norman Myers, one of the foremost authorities on rates of
Deforestation in tropical forests, “the annual destruction rates seems set to accelerate further
And it could well double in a...

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...cause more rather than less cropland expansion. The apparent tradeoff between forest and agriculture can be minimized through spatial management and the use of degraded or low competition lands ( Lambin and Meyfroidt, 2011). This can be further addressed by community based forest management which build son political goodwill and strong community institutions. New challenges from climate changed require urgent action to explore and protect the local value of forests for livelihood even more. This is particularly true in the case of emerging activities undertaken as part of
REDD+ activities where broad forest governance are aligned with it along with people participation, it is ensuring livelihood benefits of the people dependant on forests. These new activities will safeguard traditional ways of life and the environmentally important forests ecosystems of the world.