Deforestation Deforestation is the clearing of forests for various reasons, such as agriculture, logging, and urbanization. This affects our Earth by global warming and endangering habitats [Biodiversity]. There are many ways to stop deforestation such as planting a tree, using less paper, recycling paper and cardboard, buying only sustainable wood products, raising awareness, and helping restore degraded forests. Deforestation can affect the balance of the ecosystem and the overall health of our planet. When forests are cleared it can lead to a loss of biodiversity, many animals rely on forests for their habitats, and when those habitats are destroyed, they can become endangered or even extinct. Forests also help us store carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen and creates a balance as we breathe out carbon dioxide, however when a tree is cut down it …show more content…
Canada has around 9% of the world’s forests and around 95% of them have restrictions where mining, harvesting and hydroelectric development are not tolerated and in fact it is illegal. This is to ensure that we can reproduce trees when we cut them down and is done responsibly so that forests are properly managed for long-term sustainability. Canada supports initiatives that promote reforestation and conservation and uses innovative practices such as integrated landscape management (ILM) which has been used in Alberta. Canada’s government wishes to plant 2 billion trees by 2023 and get 0 emissions by 2050; the groups split from province to province to focus on specific issues in that area, eventually getting them all fixed piece by piece. Canadian forests are home to many things and require wood and trees for trades such as maple syrup. There are many indigenous people who rely on their traditional ways and need our forests to live as well as keep global warming down to make their way on our ice up north. Many other countries rely on our rich resources and minerals to stay stable as our land is very
Dheeraj Patel Journey Around Canada 2. How do the natural characteristics of Canada influence human activity, and how might human activity influence Canada’s natural characteristics? (B1) In the Central part of Canada there are many different human activities that affect natural characteristics. In the Central part of Canada there are many interior plains landforms.
Deforestation of the Pacific Northwest. One of the most controversial areas associated with the global problem. of deforestation in the Pacific Northwest of the US. The problem can be broken.
Alina Bradford from Live Science, explained in her article about deforestation and how there are different causes of deforestation such as, selling trees for products such as paper, homes, house hold furniture, and other house products. She also states that other causes of deforestation are making room for agriculture purposes, and to create room for cattle ranching as well. On the downfall though there are disadvantages of deforestation as well too as she explains. One of them in fact is deforestation is contributing to climate change and also the greenhouse effect too as well by emitting a great amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the earth’s atmosphere. The effect from that happening is carbon dioxide is a greenhouse which absorbs heat from the sun and doesn’t let it escape into space. As that doing so, the Earth is heating up each year due to deforestation. From that, it will cause global warming and climate change too. There are causes and different purposes for deforestation but there are significant effects that could end up due to deforestation based on Alina Bradford’s
Deforestation is the clearing of a forest and/or cutting down of trees for human benefits such as agriculture, wood exports, etc. Deforestation is the cause of numerous environmental impacts such as habitat loss, flooding and soil erosion. It can also cause climate change, by reducing the amount of rainfall and changing the amount of sunlight reflected from Earth’s surface and increases the risk of forest . Tree growth is important for biodiversity because they absorb carbon dioxide which is a harmful greenhouse gas . However, since deforestation reduces natural carbon sinks, it disrupts the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air causing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air to increase. This poses a serious threat since carbon dioxide traps the sun’s heat and radiated light inside the earth’s atmosphere. So, with the increase in carbon dioxide more heat is trapped and thus adding to the effects of global warming. Among the many places where deforestation takes place, Amazon seems to be one of the most affected ones. More than 20 percent of it is already gone, and much more of it is severely threatened due to deforestation . It is estimated that the Amazon alone is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year .
This article describes the history of deforestation around the world and explaining how deforestation started as part of a civilizing process. Then the article tells that human populations increase causes deforestation because humans need more land for food, water, and for living purposes. Also in the last part of the article it talks about how the future of deforestation is worse than the present, even with our reforestation efforts the environment is being destroyed to fast for us to stop especially in the
Deforestation: an act of pure terrorism towards the forests of the Earth, the most evil and brutal punishment to wildlife imaginable. Every year, thousands of trees in multiple forests are chopped down either for the wood humans can make resources for or to make room for more humans to grow as they continue to rise in population. Many problems can result from deforestation: loss of habitat to animals that rely on the forest trees to survive, resulting in endangerment or extinction as the animals must forcefully move to another place to thrive in numbers while avoiding the invading humans, and the effects of potential global warming can occur due to the carbon dioxide released by the machinery used to bulldoze the trees down, and only a few
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.
British Columbia is the third largest province in Canada with an area of 95 million hectares, about 64% of it is covered in forest. The majority of this forest is used for timber production, a smaller chunk is protected as park land and the rest is unavailable to log because of remotes. Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. The majority of the trees are coniferous. With the increase of many ecological problems the preservation of forests play an important role in British Columbia. Forest are one of the most valuable resources for the economy since their wood products are being exported all over the world. It is however crucial that the environmental impacts of deforestation
What is deforestation? For those of you who may not know, deforestation is the act of cutting down trees in order to use the timber or to replace the area for other purposes such as shopping centers and living areas. ("Deforestation," n.d.) You environmentalists have to start talking action. Deforestation exploits our ecosystems and natural resources, altering our environment.
Deforestation is the immense and damaging cutting down of trees all around the world. Deforestation is a social problem because there are many who support the continuation of the cutting down of these trees because they maintain it allows for necessary resources, while others argue that it negatively affects the environment.
Reason to Listen: You as the audience should listen and understand why our planet is becoming hotter and hotter, losing specialized species, and in-turn why plants are no longer able to survive for as long as they were able to before.
Deforestation is fast becoming one of the world’s worst environmental/geographical occurring disasters known to mankind, and is due to humankind’s greed, ignorance and carelessness when considering the future of our environment.
“The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Scaling to 46 years, human have been here 4 hours, the industrial revolution began 1 minute ago, and in that time, we’ve destroyed more than half the world’s forests.” - Unknown. One major environmental problem in our world is deforestation - what is that, you ask? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, deforestation is the action or process of clearing of forests. Some consequences of this include a large contribution to global warming and climate change (about 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year), loss of biodiversity especially in tropical rainforests, and the extinction of many known or yet to be discovered species. But, through some Debt-for-Nature Swaps, leaving forests
Deforestation is the elimination of existing trees from the earth; attributable factors include urbanization, logging, ranching, and farming and to some extent land speculation. Land speculation can be included as cleared land is more valuable than forested land. Deforestation, done in the name of progress, and the long-term, devastating effects of it, is killing our planet.
since the beginning of time. Man has been destroying trees for the use of wood for