Deforestation is TROUBLE Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year.
The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation.
Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families.The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. Often many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by cutting down trees and burning them in a process known as “slash and burn” agriculture.
Logging operations, which provide the world’s wood and paper products, also cut countless trees each year. Loggers, some of them acting illegally, also build roads to access more and more remote forests—which leads to further deforestation. Forests are also cut as a result of growing urban sprawl.
Not all deforestation is intentional. Some is caused by a combination of human and natural factors like wildfires and subsequent overgrazing, which may prevent the growth of young trees.
Defoestation has many negative effects on the environment. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species.
A more workable solution is to carefully manage forest resources by eliminating clear-cutting to make sure that forest environments remain intact. The cutting that does occur should be balanced by the planting of enough young trees to replace the older ones felled in any given forest. The number of new tree plantations is growing each year, but their total still equals a tiny fraction of the Earth’s forested land
Deforestation is one of those big problems that can affect the earth and that's why i chose this topic. This made me feel bad for the animals and their habitat. We kill them just for wood and resources from it. Many of us hates deforestation but cant think a way to stop it. I have one solution that can help me (It could help others). Me and my dad plants trees and plants all over our backyard and the biggest tree we have is 3x our house. That is pretty big and makes me feel happy that they are people who will protect animals from their habitat. Remembers kids only you can prevent destroying habitats (Not really true but you get the point).
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/
The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation.
Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families.The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. Often many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by cutting down trees and burning them in a process known as “slash and burn” agriculture.
Logging operations, which provide the world’s wood and paper products, also cut countless trees each year. Loggers, some of them acting illegally, also build roads to access more and more remote forests—which leads to further deforestation. Forests are also cut as a result of growing urban sprawl.
Not all deforestation is intentional. Some is caused by a combination of human and natural factors like wildfires and subsequent overgrazing, which may prevent the growth of young trees.
Defoestation has many negative effects on the environment. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species.
A more workable solution is to carefully manage forest resources by eliminating clear-cutting to make sure that forest environments remain intact. The cutting that does occur should be balanced by the planting of enough young trees to replace the older ones felled in any given forest. The number of new tree plantations is growing each year, but their total still equals a tiny fraction of the Earth’s forested land
Deforestation is one of those big problems that can affect the earth and that's why i chose this topic. This made me feel bad for the animals and their habitat. We kill them just for wood and resources from it. Many of us hates deforestation but cant think a way to stop it. I have one solution that can help me (It could help others). Me and my dad plants trees and plants all over our backyard and the biggest tree we have is 3x our house. That is pretty big and makes me feel happy that they are people who will protect animals from their habitat. Remembers kids only you can prevent destroying habitats (Not really true but you get the point).
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/