DEFORESTATION

Social Problems

Deforestationo-the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

o-cutting down trees in forests and rainforests.

Some causes of Deforestation

This is a problem which the government cannot succeed to solve. If this cannot be stopped, our forests will be denuded.

This is not being paid attention, but sometimes this is worse than illegal logging. Here, even the small trees cut down and burned.

Illegal logging Charcoal making

Some causes of Deforestation

Hillsides/ mountainsides are cleared thoroughly.

Population growthGlobalization

Other causesKaingin System

Urban Construction Commercial Purposes

- The cutting down of trees for lumber that is used for building materials, furniture, and paper products have a major impact on forest life. Forests are cleared to accommodate expanding urban areas.

- Some of the other causes of deforestation are: clearing forests for oil and mining exploitation, to make highways and roads, slash and burn farming techniques, wildfires, and acid rain.

Other Causes

TOP 10 MOST

ENDANGERED FORESTS( 2011)

Top 10 most Endangered Forests in 2011

Endangered forests

Remaining habitat

Notes

Indo- Burma 5 % Rivers, floodplain wetlands, mangrove forests. Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, India.

New -Caledonia 5% ------

Philippines 7% Forests over the entire country including 7,100 islands.

Sundaland 7% Western half of the Indo-Malayan archipelago including southern Borneo and Sumatra.

Atlantic Forest 8% Forests along Brazil's Atlantic coast, extends to parts of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.

Mointains of southwest China

8% -----

Coastal forest of Eastern Africa

10% Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia

California Floristic Province

10% -----

Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands

10% Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, Comoros

Eastern Afromontane 11% Forests scattered along the eastern edge of Africa, from Saudi Arabia in the north to Zimbabwe in the south.

Negative Effects of Deforestation

Flash floods- Occur when there are

heavy rains, resulting in the destruction of the crops and loss of lives.

Cagayan De Oro Leyte

Illigan Quezon

Northern Samar Southern Mindanao

Landslides- a wide range of ground movement

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. -Theodore Roosevelt- J Ann Sangcay