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DEFORESTATION SPEECH
To my respected Class Teacher and dear Friends – Warm Greetings to all of you!!
I am extremely glad that I am being assigned the topic called Deforestation to talk about. I am a lover of nature and love to be surrounded with rivers and trees. So when I see men assaulting nature, destroying trees and polluting rivers, I feel extremely annoyed and want to urge our government to take strict measures against such people who harm nature for their own selfish interests.
Thus, deforestation means shrinking of a forest land in terms of area. You would be surprised to know that the forest cover land of 7,000 million hectares has faced a steep decline globally and come down to 2,400 million hectares of land in the year 2000. It is calculated that nearly 40% of the forest land cover has been lost in the tropical region in comparison to about 1% loss in the temperate regions.
In our country, at the dawn of the 20th century, forest cover area was reported to be 30% of the entire land. However, when the century came to an end, it declined to about 19.4% whereas India’s National Forest Policy (1968) has advised 67% forest covers for the hilly areas and 33% for the plain areas.
Now, let’s understand how deforestation affects our environment:
It leads to an increase in the concentration of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere; The quality of soil gets deteriorated as it first gets dried up and further eroded by water and wind; Deforestation also reduces rainfall, increases the threat of drought; It creates an imbalance in the atmosphere by making summers hotter and winters cooler; Availability of fuel wood and timber has got much reduced. Also, such products as gums, latex, resin tannin and lac are scantily available;
Lack of forests results in soil erosion and ultimately desertification, which is a complete waste. Fertile and moist forests land gets transformed into deserts owing to a decline in the rainfall amount and thus no news of floods make rounds.
Desertification as the term mentioned above is not similar deforestation, so let’s understand the difference between the two:
Desertification
It is about the change of fertile and moist land into an arid desert place;
Temperature gets either low or high;
Rainfall is much less than evaporation;
Floods do not take place;
Desertification happens due to soil erosion;
Desertified land is an absolute waste which cannot be used for any constructive use.
Deforestation
It is about decrease in the forest land cover;
It causes erosion of soil;
Occurrence of rainfall is reduced;
It triggers flash floods;
Potential to moderate temperature gets affected.
Thus, when so much worse happens to our environment due to deforestation, our government should impose a complete ban on this exercise and rather spread awareness amongst the people to grow more trees. Even though so much has been propagated and done in the past, the movements like the very famous Chipko Movement, Silent Valley Movement and Tehri Dam Development, to name a few have spread greater awareness amongst the masses and led to the preservation of forests and of course our nature.
But this is not the end as our young generation of today has to take charge of the things from there and raise the conscience of people against killing trees and forests. Thank You!
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