SESM

Deforestation
Symposium Presentation at School of Environmental Science & Management, Independent University Bangladesh
Plot 16, Block B, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Bashundhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract Presented by
Generally cutting down trees extensively to fulfill the basic needs of 1. Afrin Naz – ID: 1611107
fuel, housing and arable land and thus destroying the ecological balance 2. Akibuzzaman Shawon – ID: 1431112
is called deforestation. Floods and droughts, cyclones and 3. Tahsin Sadeque Chowdhury – ID: 1820114
tornadoes are the common phenomena in a region afflicted by
deforestation. In our country less rainfall, excessive rainfall, bad
4. Juairia Abedin – ID: 1721806
harvest, soil erosion, extinction of wild animals, greenhouse effects are the 5. Ariful Islam – ID: 1720349
problems prevailing due to deforestation.

GLOBAL WARMING &

GREENHOUSE EFFECT

Deforestation due to commercial logging of rosewood,

Nigeria

Deforestation caused by commercial palm tree farming by

the palm oil industry, Indonesia

Commercial and often illegal logging at Amazon rainforest,

Brazil

Illegal tree felling, top-soil removal and hill cutting,

Deforestation due to metal mining operations, Peru
Chattogram, Bangladesh – source: dailyasianage.com

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