Deforestation

Forest area cleared (thousands of hectares)

Tom cut down a tree in his yard.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

(a) Production cutting, burning and bagging (Somalia)

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

Everywhere there has been constant extraction of mineral, killing animals, the logging timbers and so on.

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Let it recover, before we start logging again.

In Haiti alone, about 30 million trees are cut down every year.

Underlying causes of deforestation are complex and varied.

Poverty and unemployment have pushed people indiscriminately into activities that might provide a living, for example, the felling and selling of firewood and the production of charcoal.

Globally, the loss of forests has mainly occurred in tropical and sub tropical regions, caused by the logging of hardwoods, clearance of forests for agriculture and collection of firewood.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Intensive forestry is depleting the soil and exposing it to erosion.

And finally, there's deforestation, and there's emission of methane from agriculture.

Despite the alarming rate of deforestation, new strategies have been implemented and are emerging to address this critical matter and to further our understanding of the underlying driving forces.

Human activities which affect the right to a healthy environment also take the form of deforestation which over the centuries has led to substantial forest losses and environmental degradation.

We're going to have to say, no more logging in the Amazon for 20 years.

There are regulations that it's prohibited to do logging, mining and poaching, specifically.

Corruption exists and the problem of illegal logging is acute.

And the Chinese government responded sensibly and placed a ban on felling.

In Belize, for example, 17 logging concessions were recently granted by the Government to a foreign company to cut timber in forests where Maya people have always lived and relied on the forest for their subsistence.

Because the people who were gathering Brazil nuts weren't the same people who were cutting the forests.

So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

Another global consequence of deforestation is loss of biological diversity.

In recent historic times, about 96 percent of the Coast Redwood forest was cut down, especially in a series of bursts of intense liquidation logging, clear cutting that took place in the 1970s through the early 1990s.

And the Chinese government responded sensibly and placed a ban on felling.

Also, there is evidence that combating deforestation stems the spread of harmful pathogens.

Large quantities of land, forest and farms are being cut and turned into charcoal.

The wide scale use of fuelwood in Africa is contributing to deforestation and soil erosion.

The Government was taking steps to improve sustainable harvesting practices and reforestation programmes.

They're disappearing because some timber companies go in with clear cutting.

Together, he's led the reforestation of over 25 percent of the land that had been destroyed by the loggers.

Palm oil production is the leading cause of deforestation in Indonesia.

Furthermore, deforestation is often linked with a failure to recognize the full value of forests.

Deforestation in the Panama Canal basin is a matter of particular concern.

Approximately 40 per cent of the basin apos s 326,000 hectares have been deforested.

I told you, where a seemingly dead tree stump if you stop hacking them for firewood, which you don't need to because you have wood lots, then in five years you can have a 30 foot tree.