Alisha+Dhanji-+Notes+on+Deforestation

= Alisha Dhanji- Notes on Deforestation = "Each year enough trees are cut throughout the world to build over 125 million single family homes. " Question: Can we survive without trees?

__Rain forests- What has happened to all the forests? Why are they important in our daily lives?__ Warburton, L. (1990). Rainforests. San Diego, California, USA: Lucent Books Incorporated.

“The rain forests are so valuable and contribute so much to the world that their destruction may seem totally irresponsible” “The rainforest countries have borrowed billions of dollars from the developed nations over the years” “The clearings made for the roads change the ecosystem for hundreds of feet on either side by letting in sunlight, disturbing water drainage and absorption, and bisecting the animals’ territories.” "Humanity has become one of earth’s most dangerous adversaries." "Through ignorance, carelessness, and international misuse of the environment, people are threatening to destroy the land, air, and water of their natural habitat."
 * Forest is needed for survival
 * Provides multiple resources
 * The main reason for forest devastation is the economy
 * The developing countries own most of the forest land
 * The government underestimates the rainforest
 * Because they are developing countries, they go to the quickest solution instead of thinking of long term plans
 * Sometimes forests get to big and complexed to manage
 * Developing countries don’t have the ability to pay back the money they have borrowed
 * Damaging roads have been built in the middle of a forest as a short cut
 * The construction and gas from the roads and railways have affected the climate
 * Not enough room to provide for the population therefore forests are in the running to be ruined or removed
 * Forcing native peoples out of their own land
 * Poachers are killing the life cycle of animals
 * Settlers pick the parts of the forest with the thickest biggest trees in order to take advantage of the fertile soil
 * Burn/slashing large areas of vegetation (60-70% of world forest devastation yearly)
 * Logging industry is taking down all the trees (15%)
 * Fuel loss- killing forests
 * Kids-protesting, people are killing trees to use it for paper
 * They should be using the trees the beetles are heading for

Vanishing Wetlands McCormick, A. L. // Vanishing Wetlands. // San Diego, California, United States of America.

"Each year enough trees are cut throughout the world to build over 125 million single family homes. " "Forests provide people with food, shelter, and fuel."

The Tropical Forest

Massa, R. (1997). // The Tropical Forest. // Austin, Texas, USA: Raintree Steck-Vaughn.

"Of the 5 to 30 million living species many thousand disappear each year." "In the next 30-40 years out planet could loose between one and five million species" "What remains of the tropical forest covers only 6% of earths dry land" "The destruction of the tropical forests is now so vast and widespread, it would be almost impossible to stop without reversing the process currently taking place." "According to Norman Myers, one of the world’s chief experts on this subject, the rate of deforestation increased from 75,000 square kilometers per year in 1979 to 142,000 square kilometers in 1989. It is currently growing at a rate of 169,000 square kilometers per year." "A reversal of this line of development would require huge investment in favor of a rapid decrease in human birthrate in developing countries and in industrial production in developing countries" "In south America, forest destruction is frequently caused by governments making way for the foundation of new cities in remote zones."

The Atlas of Endangered Species Pollock, S. (1993). //The Atlas of Endangered Places .// New York, New York, United States of America: Facts on File. "We know that the tropical forests of the world could provide us with many useful resources, yet we are today destroying them at an even faster rate than 10 years ago." " Most of the remaining forest grows in South America" "Each year we destroy 16.4-20.4 hectares of forests. This is equivalent to twice the size of Austria" "Tropical Forests contain 155,000 of the 250,000 known plant species" "One-fifth of all the bird species are found in all Amazon forests and 90% of all primates are found only in tropical forest regions of south America, Africa and Asia." " Without the trees, the tropical rains wash away 185 tons of fertile topsoil from one hectare, making the land useless." " The destruction of forests creates more problems than just the loss of trees. Forests hold onto and also onto water. When the trees go, the soil is washed away and the water causes flooding"
 * The third world countries are running out of space for their population thanks to their huge birth rate and in order to provide housing and services for these people they need to demolish all their rural land, taking away all the forests located in the region
 * // How does this effect our food? If there isn’t any land to make crops on? //


 * Is technology affecting the speed at which the forests are being destroyed?
 * Most of the valuable trees are in the middle of the forest and in order to reach this land, a road or route needs to be developed to get the appropriate machinery to the middle.
 * Immigrants need land to set up businesses like farms and houses. They don’t know how to utilize the forest in a non-destructive way.