Plz tell me a essay on deforestation a major problem in our country
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In order for living creatures to survive, a stable environment must exist.
Although the environment is crucial for mans survival, man has been destroying it since the beginning of time. Man has been destroying trees for the use of wood for centuries. Today with an increasing population the amount of wood available has declined seriously in recent decades. People have been harvesting wood to cultivate land, burn, and for the use of raw materials for industry (Urquhart 2014). The estimated amount of deforestation taking place is twenty million hectares per year (Urquhart 2014). Climate change and global warming are just a few of the problems associated with the degradation of our forests.
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This is just as damaging to a forest as cutting down individual trees (NASA Facts). It is so damaging because to get the machinery into a forest they must cut down trees to form a pathway. By forming this pathway the trees in the way become useless because they were bulldozed out of the ground.
Population affects the land differently by the ways people use the lands. From
1990 to 2000 closed forests lost a lot of land. The closed forests worldwide lost 34.8 million hectares and other land cover lost 21.6 million hectares. The total landmass of this loss of forests is comparable to the size of France (Marcoux). Most of this land was lost due to permanent agriculture and pastures. This is a lot of land over a ten year period that people have destroyed when they could have used other methods of farming to gain more profit and conserve land. This type of farming also leads to rapid population growth in these areas, which are taking more and more forestland.
The rapid growth comes from people trying to seek land to colonize for it’s farming, or by agricultural entrepreneurs trying to make commercial operations (Marcoux).
After the change from closed forest to open forest farmers took another 9 million hectares. The main reason for this was for fuel wood exploitation, grazing and related fire practices, and selective farming (Marcoux).