What are the Causes and Effects of Deforestation? Deforestation involves the cutting down‚ burning‚ and damaging of forests. Deforestation can be defined as the change of forest with depletion of tree crown cover more than 90%. However‚ depletion of forest tree crown cover less than 90% is considered forest degradation. Causes of Deforestation: The main causes of deforestation are summarized below: (i) Population explosion (ii) Agriculture: shifting cultivation‚ overgrazing‚ cash crop
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Deforestation of South-East Asia The effects deforestation is having on south-east Asia are dizzying. Rapid development since the siege of Khe-Sanh in Vietnam (1968) and surrounding nations of the Mekong region has caused widespread destruction of their forests. Many of these areas are switching trees for coffee bushes‚ threatening the extraordinary biodiversity that holds around 1‚700 different species. These trees are cut down for the furniture export market. Also‚ forests are being wiped out
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DEFORESTATION INTRODUCTION: Deforestation‚ clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms‚ ranches‚ or urban use. The term deforestation is often misused to describe any activity where all trees in an area are removed. However in temperate climates‚ the removal of all trees in an area in conformance with sustainable forestry practices—is correctly
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“The New Amazon of the North: Canadian Deforestation” Deforestation is an ongoing issue throughout the world. To this date‚ we have lost more than 75 percent of the forests on Earth. Deforestation is the clearing of forests to make way for new‚ non-forest land uses‚ such as urban development or agriculture‚ transforming a forest into cleared land (“Deforestation and Afforestation”). When thinking about deforestation‚ the first place that comes in anyone’s mind is Brazil‚ because that is where the
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Deforestation Deforestation is clearing Earth’s forests on a massive scale‚ often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area‚ but large areas the size of Panama are lost each year. The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Reasons for Deforestation Forests are cut down for many reasons‚ but most of them are related to money or people’s need to provide for their families
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not harvest timber in a responsible‚ sustainable manner. Because of this‚ forests are shrinking‚ habitats are disappearing‚ and animals are now forced to find new habitats‚ as their old ones have been ravaged and eradicated. It is obvious that “deforestation is taking place at an unsustainable rate‚ and forests are being cut at an unsustainable rate” (Acheson). Fortunately for us‚ habitat destruction can be decreased by harvesting and replanting different segments of forest land in a staggered order
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Deforestation in Costa Rica Costa Rica is famous for it’s rainforests and vast biodiversity and ecosystems‚ including 12‚000 species of plants‚ 1‚239 species of butterflies‚ 838 species of birds‚ 440 species of reptiles and amphibians‚ and 232 species of mammals (Wikipedia)‚ which overtime have become under threat due to deforestation. Since the end of World War II‚ 80 percent of Costa Rican forests have disappeared (Wikipedia). Various companies are cutting down forests‚ to provide
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Deforestation is a severe environmental destruction which cannot be revived easily if changed at current rate. Therefore‚ I totally agree that deforestation causes a lot of environmental problems. Deforestation includes the cutting down‚ burning and destructing of forests. The deforestation affects the ecosystem and disrupts the oxygen and carbon oxide cycle. People have an impression that if the trees were cut down‚ it will grow back in a few years. Everyone knows the trees are very
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Why should we care about deforestation? Deforestation is a leading cause in global warming and the increase in greenhouse gases like carbon. Deforestation also affects many things including man-kind. The degradation of the Amazons trees and vegetation would be oil industries‚ and soybean farmers’ expansion into the rainforest. The effects are also important as well‚ some effects of Deforestation are the change in climate‚ the impact on the global hydro climate‚ and scattered rainfall; whether it
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DELAYS FACTORS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF KLANG VALLEY‚ MALAYSIA ABDELNASER OMRAN School of Housing‚ Building and Planning‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Pulau Pinang Email: naser_elamroni@yahoo.co.uk OOI AI LING School of Housing‚ Building and Planning‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Pulau Pinang ABDUL HAMID KADIR PAKIR School of Housing‚ Building and Planning‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Pulau Pinang MAHYUDDIN RAMLI School of Housing‚ Building and Planning‚ Universiti
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