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Introduction
Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-
forested land, for uses.
-: Mining.
The demand for fuel wood is very high that will create a
shortage by the year 2010.
The amount of damage that this adds to the forests cannot
be measured
FIRE LOGGING
CYCLE
Cattle Grazing and
Deforestation
Cattle Grazing and
Deforestation
•Most devastating forces behind
deforestation is cattle grazing.
•International fast food chains
seems to be an evident factor in
the clearing of trees today.
•Large corporations buy Beef for
hamburger & other food products.
15,000 km squared of
forests are used expressly
for the purpose of cattle
grazing .
Once the trees are gone the
land is often overgrazed.
Cattle grazing is big profit
OTHER CAUSES
Other Causes:-
Acid rain and the building of dams
have their share of harmful
effects.
The race to produce cash crops
such as fruit, spices, sugar
tobacco, soap, rubber, paper, and
cloth has given cause to many to
try to farm them by using soil and
other products.
Industrialized countries may
participate in the destruction of
forests in the 3rd world.
The need for products in
industrialized countries drives
production in other poorer, less
developed countries.
This production is at the cost of
EFFECTS
Deforestation presents multiple societal
and environmental problems.
The immediate and long-term
consequences of global deforestation are
almost certain to jeopardize life on Earth
as we know it.
Some of these consequences include:
loss of biodiversity;
the destruction of forest-based-societies
climatic disruption.
EFFECTS
EROSION flooding
The underlying soils are very Flooding is a quite serious
poor . consequence of
essential nutrients are washed
out of the soil all-together. deforestation.
about 80% of the soils in the Clearing the forest
humid tropics are acidic and dramatically increases the
infertile surface run-off from rainfall.
rainfall washes remaining
nutrients into rivers.
"Tropical forests can receive
replanting trees will not as much rain in an hour as
necessarily help to solve the London would expect in a
problems of deforestation. wet month.
cultivation in the forest regions In tropical regions where the
will be impossible.
The soil erosion will lead to forests are dense, flooding is
permanent impoverishment of not as serious a problem.
huge land areas. to avoid the disastrous
The social impact of soil
EFFECTS
EFFECT TO
Climatic change BIODIVERSITY
It is due to the loss of trees. Forests are natural habitats to
Earth has an atmosphere which many types of animals and
contains a variety of gases, all in organisms.
a delicate balance, to ensure life Many animals are left without
on Earth. shelters.
The gas in atmosphere is Those that manage to go through
carbon dioxide; a gas which the flat lands and residential sites
helps moderate heat loss to are then killed by people.
outer space.
There are millions of plant and
extinct animal species that have
Insulating gases such as carbon been wiped out
dioxide are called "greenhouse Thus, biodiversity is significantly
gasses lowered because of the savage
Greenhouse gases include deforestation
methane, chlorofluorocarbons,
nitrous oxide, and ozone.
The process of greenhouse gas
Wildlife advocates have been
increase is quite simple. constantly reminding that several
wild animals left in the world could
The effects of deforestation are still be saved if deforested forests
widely ranging and can be
Controlling
Deforestation
Farming Reforestation