Deforestation

Submitted by : Mahnoor Khawaja

Kinnaird college Lahore

Introduction

•Clearing of forest by burning or, logging off is called deforestation.• Around 18 million acres of the forests are cleared.•Forest covers 31% of the land area of the planet.

Top ten countries with highest Deforestation rate

1. Growing demand for housing

• With increase in the population the demand of home automatically boost up , to fulfil the need forest are the target.

World population

2. Logging

• Many commercial companies fell down trees in a process called selective logging , where most valuable trees are felled .

• Over the years the wood demand as moved from fuels to house hold products.

Wood felling by commercial logging companies

Demand for wood

3. Agriculture . Crop planting Cleaning trees for palm trees and other crops

Cleaning of land to rear cattle

4. Mining Oil and coal mining require considerable amount of

forest land.

5. Fires

Hundreds of trees are lost each year due to forest fires

Urbanization Construction of road, industries and houses .

Desertification of land

Case study of Amazon forest

Events Year Detail

1960s Burning of trees to clean area for farming

1970s Constriction of roads for transport of timber

1990- 2000 Total are lost is 160,000 sq km to 587,000 sq km , of which 70% is used for livestock

present 28 % increase in deforestation as compare to last years. Government has enforced fins on illegal activities regarding felling of tress.