November 2015 Deforestation By the time that you finish reading this article 324 football fields or 428 acres worth of forests will be lost to deforestation. Yearly this is a rate of thirty five million acres of forest loss. This is equivalent to a space the size of Nicaragua.*** Deforestation is the long term or permanent loss of forest cover and its transformation into another land use. Deforestation happens when forests are cut down faster than they are renewed.*** Deforestation has been occurring
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Rainforest Deforestation Tropical rainforests are an invaluable resource to wildlife and humanity. The level of biodiversity is unlike anywhere else in the world. A plethora of unknown species of plants and animals thrive in tropical rainforests, and many of them may offer medicinal benefits to humans; however, with the rapid deforestation of these areas, the Earth is losing some of the most precious resources. Logging, agriculture, and cattle-ranching are the main forces that drive deforestation and heavily
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Deforestation Mitigation Strategy SCI/275 10/12/2010 Joanne Massi There is a global issue at hand relating to our environment. It is one that tends to get overlooked due to issues like global warming, oil spills, water related issues, etc. It is forest destruction, or Deforestation, as it is often referred to. Simply put, Deforestation is the clearing of the Earths forests on a very large scale. This is a worldwide epidemic, and generally in mainstream society, it is an issue that is largely
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Amazon Deforestation Dilemma Small-scale ranchers who contracts land from the Brazilian authority are responsible for contributing to the obliteration of the Amazon rainforest. Greenpeace suggests that the Brazilian supplier JBS sources the meat products it supplies to Meat markets from farms in illegitimately stripped lands. The consumers and any other buyers shopping for meat at meat markets are adding to the destruction of the forest. Farms formed from the Amazon rainforest are progressively
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slower than the rates at which they are cleared because the incentives given to the locals in replanting the trees are not attractive enough. E.g. In East Kalimantan, replanting has covered only 90,000 square kilometres while the area reduced by deforestation is 250,000 square kilometres in 2000-01. Controlled logging is encouraged by MOF to minimize the damage caused by logging in rainforests to ensure carefully logging. Measures such as law enforcement, as well as education and research are taken
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Axel Soto Enc1101 November 4, 2015 Deforestation Walt Kelly once said “We have met the enemy and he is us”, while this quote can be used for a variety of things, in this instance it will be used to describe the concept of deforestation. According to Merriam Webster deforestation is the act or result of cutting down or burning all the trees in an area. There are many causes that can lead to deforestation for instance, agriculture expansion, logging operations, land abuse, and accidental wildfires
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In this scholarly article, the authors discuss the issue of deforestation and how there has been a major increase in the past few decades- focusing on Latin America because it is one of the regions experiencing the highest rates of deforestation. Due to illegal practices and the growing of agricultural crops, a majority of the world’s forested area has been left desolate and arid. Due to new technologies, people can now monitor loss by using remote-sensing technology and analyze patterns in forests
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Deforestation is threatening to destroy the planet’s rainforest ecosystems. Currently, the Amazon experiences the highest rates of deforestation in the world, averaging close to 2 million hectares per year. The large-scale removal of trees caused two once-in-a-century droughts in the region in the past nine years. The 2005 and 2010 droughts induced more frequent fires and reduced surface runoff for the region. The Amazon also went from being a global net carbon sink to a source of global net
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Deforestation is not necessarily explained by the extent of forest cover is the most important message by Figure 2. Although forestland extension in the high Amazon is quite smaller than the extension in the low Amazon, deforestation level in both areas is comparable. The location of the high Amazon lands is one intuitive explanation for this since they are closer to the Peruvian highlands and the Coast, where the most populated cities (including Lima, the capital city) and the most important markets
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preserve it, we still gotta use it for our benefit as a whole. We need everything we can get to survive on this planet, This rainforest should maintain untouched as we continue deforestation and continue to use its resources. Since there is a crisis going on about loss of jobs, there are people needed to help with the deforestation. The job issue is growing and this can become a great opportunity to help those who need jobs to bring in some income to their families. Jobs can be created when helping out
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