Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest. This can include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing, or using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing.
Forests cover more than 30% of the Earth’s land surface.
provide food, medicine and fuel for more than a billion people
forests provide 13.4 million people with jobs in the forest sector, and another 41 million people have jobs related to forests.
estimates that about 3.9 million square miles (10 million square km) of forest have been lost since the beginning of the 20th century. In the past 25 years, forests shrank by 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square km) — an area bigger than the size of South Africa
deforestation: beef, soy, palm oil and wood products. UCS estimates that an area the size of Switzerland (14,800 square miles, or 38,300 square km) is lost to deforestation every year.
naturally fire that happen when the sun gets too hot and catches a light to dry leaves or wood.
human s cutting down all an areas of land for the timber/ wood in trees then all the land is set alight order to clear the land for urbanisation (build the cities into rain forest) or can be done for the soy or castle.
palm oil plantations.
cheap, versatile and can be added to both food and personal products
humans will destory a rain forest air and then repant it with three that creates old in order for money out of the as the palm/oil industry is growing dramatically.
80% of terrestrial biodiversity, containing a wide array of trees, plants, animals and microbes
Uganda, people rely on trees for firewood, timber and charcoal. Over the past 25 years, Uganda has lost 63% of its forest cover
children are being set out to get all the wood mainly girls and now being left to travel further and further each day inorder to get it. often missing out on school as they have to travel so far
Earth’s freshwater comes from forested watersheds, and the loss of trees can affect water quality
over half the global population relies on forested watersheds for their drinking water as well as water used for agriculture and industry.
so as the land is beng cut down the forested land had rates of evapotranspiration that were about three times higher, adding more water vapor to the air as the ad the doesn’t have any source of land of cant not reproduce water so it goes heavily into the rainforest areas and can make it rain too much which can create soil erosion it its self
trees take in carbon dixoide and out put oxgen which make a large amount of the world oxgen which cuttued down the threes can result in discraed amount of carbon dioxide in the world
it is the second most damaging/reason for climate change
ways of saving: ruduce the amount of palm oil, use less people,find susutable ways of planting/ farming, use different materials that don’t need to destroyed the rainfresr inorder to get access and when destorying or having destroyed areas rebuild/ pant new crops s the planet can keep rebooting and flxing it self.
congo
The biggest drivers of deforestation in the Congo rainforest over the past 20 years have been small-scale subsistence agriculture, clearing for charcoal and fuelwood, urban expansion, and mining. Industrial logging has been the biggest driver of forest degradation.
biggest threats to the Congo rainforest come from industrial logging and conversion for large-scale agriculture. Some environmentalists fear that the Congo could be on the verge of a massive increase in deforestation for palm oil, rubber, and sugar production.
Congo basin, affording workers with basic healthcare, housing, and other services and then business are taking advantage f this as they know that they is a lax in the system for this as it give the people employment they do nit look at the environmental impact of the work that they are doing only looking at the money and the lack of red tape.
deforestation in the Congo is caused by local subsistence activities by poor farmers and villagers who rely on forest lands for agriculture and fuelwood collection. Slash-and-burn is commonly used for clearing forest
poor farmers and colonists gains access to forest lands by following logging roads, although in the past few years civil strife has driven many Central Africans deep into the rainforest to escape the widespread violence.
violence since the mid-90s. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have moved through the forests of the Congo, stripping vegetation and devastating wildlife populations.
Mining operations are poorly monitored and financial returns are prioritized over social impacts and the long-term health effects — much less to the environmental impact.