Deforestation In Thailand Proposal Large areas of the world’s forest are being destroyed as you read this sentence. Volcanoes are erupting, floods are flooding and fires are burning; but with these occurrences the forest will emerge again to become what it once was. Unfortunately this is not the major reason that the forest are being depleted, Deforestation, the permanent loss of forestland, caused by humans is the main cause. With natural disasters the land is left to replenish itself but with deforestation the land becomes un-sustainable to forest life. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) “estimates that the annual rate of deforestation is about 1.3 million square km per decade, with the main deforestation occurring in the tropics where a wide variety of forest exist”.
The largest human cause of dead zones is nutrient run off from abundant use of fertilizers, animal waste and sewage. The runoff is a bi-product of our agribusiness, farming practices and growing population. Before immense land development the wetlands acted as a natural barrier and filter. The runoff would be depleted in the soil by the plants before it could reach the rivers and ocean. Human commercial activity and land development have destroyed the natural shield of the wetlands.
“The beating rain worked at the canvas until it penetrated and sent streams down…” (554).With all this rain coming to the California valley, sickness and disease also hit the plantation. Migrants build dikes, but they are swept away. Even though the cars move slowly, the water seeps into the ignition wires and the carburetors and ruin them. Now the migrants lack transportation. They seek shelter in
For example in areas of Nepal, they cut down the vegetation to provide wood for heating and construction, the fertile topsoil is eroded by rain because it is now without the protection offered by natural vegetation. The hillside fields then become unproductive, incapable of supporting the people who have settled there. Because they didn’t carefully develop the vast forest area, they lost the land now. In the World, some countries used tropical zones to provide employment and earn money from exports. Because overexploitation of tropical forests affect the global climate.
The largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon, is being rapidly destroyed. The reasons are many, and little is being done to prevent this. The use of chemical defoliants and the attempt of building a road through the Amazon has done horrific damage to the rainforest. Logging is a part of the reckless destruction of the beautiful rainforest. Cattle ranching contributes greatly to the demise of the amazonian rainforest.
Deforestation- removal of trees and forests through cutting or burning Agriculture - the science or practice of farming ‘Intensive’ Agriculture - takes place o n a much bigger scale; large companies clear vast amounts of land Pesticides - substance used to kill organisms that are harmful to plants Commercial Loggers - involves the cutting trees then selling them as timber or pulp Poignant - sharp or pungent in taste or smell Greenhouse effect - process when radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planets surface Propositions - a statement that expresses a judgement or opinion Asset - useful or valuable thing Activist - a person who wants political or social change Questions (five): 1Q: What are the consequences of deforestation?
For instance, people deforest grown trees without planting young trees. Deforestation means the felling and clearing of forest cover or tree plantations in order to accommodate agricultural, industrial or urban use. It involves permanent end of forest cover to make that land available for residential, commercial or industrial purpose. Due to massive trees clearance, various species of animals are lost. They lose their habitat and forced to move to new location; besides, many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.
Another cause for erosion is overgrazing; which is the constant grazing of animals on plants without allowing the plants any recovery time. This exposes the soil for an extended time leading to water and wind soil erosion. The NRCS has a program called the Conservation Stewardship Program that provides information and support to enable ranchers who own their land to burn unwanted woody plants, reseed the land with perennial grass varieties that hold water, and manage the cattle so that the herd are moved to a new location before overgrazing occurs. Lastly, deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. The result to this is the top soil is left exposed it then becomes saturated with water and slides off the slope in a muddy mass into waterways leaving the subsoil to continuously erode.
The forest floor is littered with leaves and decaying vegetation. Decomposition by bacteria and molds is rapid, and nutrients are quickly recycled into new plant growth. This is due to the poor soil quality in tropical rain forests. Nutrient layers only exist in a thin topsoil that is replenished by dead plant and animal remains. However, there are rain forests that have rich soils; these are typically areas of volcanic activity where volcanic soils comprise a nutrient-rich base for forest growth.
From an environmental perspective the Amazon is negatively affected from the burning of the trees which is polluting the biggest rainforest in the world with Carbon dioxide (Co2). Also, a lot of nutrients are being lost from deforestation and high quality soil is being wasted. Desertification is slowly happening in the Amazon and other rainforests. If deforestation continues the rainforests will start to lose bodies of water, as well as vegetation and wildlife. There are many problems that the rainforest biome encounters.