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RAUL RAMIREZINSITUTO SANTA MARÍA
MELISSA MALDONADO CORNELIO
PRESENTED TO:
TEACHER RAUL
“DEFORESTATION”
6TH. SEMESTER
FÍSICO-QUÍMICO
URUAPAN, MICHOACÁN
06/05/18
Deforestation
What is deforestation?
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.
Causes
The main cause is agriculture.
Inequitable distribution of wealth and power could be also a cause, but scientists
think that this isn’t a real cause.
Also population growth, overpopulation and urbanization are responsible for this.
Forest fires: Each year, fires burn millions of hectares of forest worldwide. Fires are
a part of nature but degraded forests are particularly vulnerable. These include
heavily logged rainforests, forests on peat soils, or where forest fires have been
suppressed for years allowing unnatural accumulation of vegetation that makes the
fire burn more intensely
Illegal and unsustainable logging: Illegal logging occurs in all types of forests
across all continents
Fuelwood harvesting: Over-harvesting for domestic use or for commercial trade in
charcoal significantly damages forests.
Effects
Deforestation is a contributor to global warming.
The water cycle is also affected; trees extract groundwater with their roots and
release it into the atmosphere, but when part of the forest is removed the trees no
longer transpire this water, and this make a drier climate.
Deforestation also cause the extinction of many species.
Economic impact
The forest products industry is a
large part of the economy in both
developed and developing countries.
The European Union is one of the
largest importer of products made
from illegal deforestation.
About 90% of the deforestation has
occurred within 100 km of roads in most parts of the Amazon.
Statistics
About half of the world’s tropical forest have been cleared (FAO).
Forest currently cover about 30% of the world’s land mass (National Geographic).
About 36 football fields worth of trees are lost every minute (WWF).
Prevention
The best solution to deforestation is to curb
the felling of trees, by employing a series of
rules and laws to govern it.
Clear cutting of forests must be banned.
This will curb total depletion of the forest
cover.
The cutting must be replaced by planting
young trees to replace the older ones that
were cut.
