Deforestation introduction causes effects & control
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The document discusses deforestation, defining it as the clearance of forests for various uses, including agriculture and urban development. It outlines causes such as shifting cultivation, commercial logging, and industrial projects, while also highlighting its effects, including soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, and environmental changes. The document concludes with recommendations for controlling deforestation, such as reforestation and establishing wildlife sanctuaries.
Deforestation introduction causes effects & control
- 1. By, Ariful Islam (arif) 5th semester Botany department Goalpara College,Goalpara
- 2. INDEX Definition Causes of Deforestation Effects of Deforestation Control of Deforestation Conclusion
- 3. What is Deforestation? • Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest. • Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use.
- 4. CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION1) Shifting cultivation:- • Most of the clearing of forest is done for agricultural purposes. • Poor farmers cut down trees or burn it and start agriculture. • Intensive or modern agriculture destroy the forest on a large scale.
- 5. 2) Commercial Logging:- • It involves cutting trees for sale as timber or pulp. • It employs heavy machinery to remove cut trees and build roads. • Logging roads enable people to access the interiors of the forest, which in results in deforestation .
- 6. 3) Mining and Dams:- • Mining, industrial development and hydroelectric power plant projects are also causes of deforestation. • Dams open the previously inaccessible forest and damage ecosystems.
- 7. Effect Of Deforestation 1) Soil Erosion:- The soil gets washed away with rain water on sloppy area in the absence of trees leading to soil erosion. 2) Expansion of Deserts:- Due to action of strong wind mass of land gradually gets covered to sand deserts. 3) Decrease in Rainfall:- In the absence of forest, rainfall decreases considerably because forests bring rains and maintains high humidity in atmosphere.
- 8. 4) Economic Losses:- Deforestation will cause loss of industrial timber and non-timber products and loss of long term productivity on the site. 5) Loss of Bio-diversity:- Deforestation cause the biodiversity leading to disturbances in ecological balance world wild. 6) Environmental Changes:- It will lead to increase in carbon dioxide concentration and other air pollutants. This would result in Global Warming.
- 9. CONTROL OF DEFORESTATION • Reforestation:- Many countries in the world have started reforestation and forestry, and East Asian nations are leading in this regard. Many East Asian countries, including China, have successfully managed to reverse deforestation.
- 10. Wildlife Sanctuaries :- Sanctuaries are very important, not only to save wildlife, but to save trees as well. Sanctuaries go a long way in protecting all wildlife.
- 11. • Commercial Forest Plantations :- There can be special forest plantations for all the wood that is needed for the industry. This way the wood can be cut in a controlled and regulated environment.
- 12. CONCLUTION If we do not put an end to deforestation, all of earth’s forests will disappear within the next 100 years.
- 13. THANK YOU