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DEFORESTATION
WHAT IS DEFORESTATION?

Deforestation is cutting down of trees and clearing away
forest.
For agriculture, commercial use without allowing time for the
forest to regenerate itself.
Deforestation is one of the environmental issue caused
by human and natural changes on earth.

Commercial
Logging
Agriculture
Forest fires
Mining and drilling
Fuel-wood
collection
Urbanization

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COMMERCIAL LOGGING:
Timber resource is an important asset for the
prosperity of county.
Commercial wood is found ready in national as
well as international markets.
According to natural forests are being exploited
logging or felling of forest trees for obtaining
timber is an important cause of deforestation.
Live trees with thick
and straight trunks
are filled and
transported to
commercial
establishments.
AGRICULTURE EXPANSION:
With increase in the demands for agricultural
products, more and more land is brought
under cultivation for which forests are
destroyed, grasslands ploughed, and even land
water is reclaimed.
Such an expansion is marked with more
ecological destruction.

SHIFTING CULTIVATION:
Shifting cultivation is considered to be another
cause for deforestation.
In fact shifting cultivation has occurred
due to poor fertility of the soil.

In this cultivation a small patch of tropical forests
is cleared, vegetation, destroyed and burned.
Crops are grown as long
as the soil is productive,
after which the cultivation is
abandoned, and a
cultivations move on to
fresh patch of land.
The soil is unable to regain its fertility before it is
put to use again

FUEL WOOD COLLECTION:
Majority of rural
populations as well as
larger number of people
living in small towns and
cities of developing
countries, the only fuel is
wood, which's burned to
cook food and provide heat
in chilly winters
URBANISATION:
Increasing in human population , and live
stock.
Industrialization, urbanization and large
sized irrigation projects are major causes.
As a result, the requirement of timber, fuel
wood, land for cropping and farming and land
for grazing by domestic cattle are gradually
increasing.

Mining ,quarrying , irrigation ,
construction of roads and development
of industries such as paper industry,
plywood industry based on forest
products such as bamboos, wood are
also responsible for large scale
deforestation.
According to an
estimate the total
forest are in India was
7000 million hectares
in 1900 which have
been gradually
decreased to 2890
million hectares in
1975.
Total land area India
2008-2012 was
64.2million
hectares(approx)

SOME OF THE MAIN HAZARDS OF DEFORESATION
ARE:
Soil erosions
Global warming
Loss of bio diversity
Destruction of water
cycle
Destruction of the
scenic beauty of the
environment

SOIL EROSION:

When forest areas are cleared, the soil is exposed
to the sun, making it very dry and eventually,
infertile, due to volatile nutrients being lost.
In addition, when there is erosion, rainfall washes
away the rest of the nutrients, which flow with the
rainwater into waterways.
GLOBAL WARMING:

When people cut down trees to expand land,
every tree they cut down is letting out carbon
dioxide that has been stored when they have done
photosynthesis.
Every particle of carbon dioxide that is emitted
into the air adds to the greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere this results in global warming.
When deforestation occurs, many of the
trees are burnt or are left to rot,
which results in releasing the carbon
that is stored in them as carbondioxide.
This in turn leads to greater
concentrations of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.

The unique biodiversity of various geographical
areas is being lost on a scale that is quite
unprecedented.
Even though tropical rainforests make up just 6
percent of the surface area of the Earth, about 85
percent of the entire species of the world exist
here.

LOSS OF BIO DIVERSITY:
Due to massive
deforestation, about
50 to 100 species of
animals are being lost
each day .
This puts the
extinction of animals
and plants on a
massivescale.
DISRUPTION OF WATER CYCLE:
Trees contribute in a large way in maintaining
the water cycle.

They take in water via their roots, which is then
released into the atmosphere.

A large part of the water that circulates in the
ecosystem of rainforests, for instance, remains
inside the plants.

When these trees are cut down it results in the
climate in the getting drier in that area.

STEPS TO REDUCE DEFORESTATION
1. Plant trees
By planting trees, you can reduce
emissions that can usually be
absorbed by the forest.
Also, the trees will hold soil
like the forests they replace.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION:
Forest are very important in controlling the
environmental pollution.
The enormous production of carbon dioxide by
industries, automobiles and other causes
environmental pollution.

The plants use the carbon dioxide to a large
extent in photosynthesis and oxygen is released
during this process.
Thus forest helps in regulating the atmospheric
carbon dioxide and thereby controls the
environmental pollutions

2.Petition for planting trees
and/or stopping cutting
down of trees
By bringing attention to
the problems with
deforestation , you can
make a difference in
governments choices on
building projects
and land management.

3. Using prebuilt buildings rather than building new
ones.
Every time a new building
is built on new land, more
forest is destroyed.
So when your parents
want to build a house,
suggest buying one, or
using land a house was
built on and knocking it
down. No forest is harmed.
4. Avoid using timber as much as possible.
When you need to build
something, try using
alternatives to timber.
The less wood we need,
the less forest will be
knocked out!

5. Cut down use of paper.
Whenever you can, reuse or
recycle paper as opposed to
printing new paper.
Every piece of paper you
throw out is a tree you just
wasted! You can even try to
use electronics to do papers.
Recycle and buy recycle
products.

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