How might we save the forests of the world?

Question

Through photosynthesis, plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, store the carbon in sugars, starch and cellulose, and release the oxygen into the atmosphere. Forests play a major role in the removal of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere. Major forests in Brazil, Indonesia, the Congo and other parts of the world are disappearing because of humans activity.

Answer 1

DEFORESTATION 2 LEAVE GAIA GASPING

trees are coming down all the time ,

in My town trucks loaded with huge logs of exotic timber leave the mountains with permits bought from corupt oficials almost nightly

we can only guess at the exatct amount but from my house we can see many bare patches on the mountains and the river is constantly muddy in the last 3 years ,because topsols with out theprotection of the forrests is washed into the rivers ,

this is just one place and this is happening all over mexico ,the Market for the wood being the USA.

here is a general note on deforestation

CAN DEFORESTATION BE STOPPED

Almost impossible

the Indians or local people would cut everything down and burn the forrest to replace it with harmfull short term farming killing the soil in no time

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's

clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

that and the giant networks of roads that have exchanged forests for asphalt all over the planet

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years

the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.

TV put out a series of documentaries

there are campaigns in the News papers

and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day

more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees

it is an impossible situation

as long as there is poverty and an increasing birth rate in these regions the destruction will continue

they are too easily tempted to sell of exotic animals to the unscroupelous people who buy them.for the market that exists in the USA.

we must look for ways to improve economic situations on the edges of Nature .

the only way to preserve the forrest is to devellop eco tourism under strict control that has limited acces ,and use the local people in the concept as guides ,hotel staff and get them to start home industries of artifacts .

eco tourism is the only concept that profits by a healthy back ground with out harming it

IN THE PAST

in the days of the dinosaurs this planet was under an aquiferus manta ,a mist that covered the entire earth ,and there were very few desserts .

Count how many there are today,and most of them are as a result of mans actions.

the sahara used to be forrests

arabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times

Ghengas Kahn burned all the forrests here and filled the well with water and so turning vast lands into dessert.

the Spanish Armada deforested Spain

.the Phoenician fleet deforested Lebanon

some more places are everywhere where there are or where forrests and wild life

Madagascar a botanic paradise is now destroyed

the exotic animals sold or killed ,the forest slash and burned for agriculture ,the coastal water poluted by topsoils washed fronm the denuded moutains by the rains.

many many countries in Africa (because of poverty and war as well as greedy farming )

Borneo because of the expensive timber

india ,China ,Mexico ,South Americas Amazonia,

Europe because of civilization,USA,Japan because of overpopulation,

read a planet under stress ,plan B --by Lester E Brown.

it is in an Adobe print out as well on the net.

REFORRESTATION

so to counter act these fatal processes we must reforrest and at the same time reduce our carbon emissions.

most governments are aware of these and many first world countries now include programs to reduce their carbon emissions.

the world bank pays large subsidies for farmers to plant trees especially a tree called Paulownia elongate carolinia,because it is one of the better ones that capture carbon.

HOWEVER

1000 trees that are replanted do not come anywhere near as producing the same effect or fullfilling the same function ,as far as carbon absorbtion ,production of humidity,climatic effects as the absorbtion or release of heat ,as ONE SINGLE FULLY GROWN TREE.

people keep saying we are good we cut down a thousand trees and replanted 20 thousand more

This means nothing in terms of environmental effects.

it takes at least 10 to 20 years before one of these replanted trees makes the same impact as the ones that are removed

And now the quest for Ethenol is claiming more than anything else before

Answer 2

Well for one thing, we could definitely stop cutting down the rainforests, and every other tree. More companies could replace more trees after they cut. Or we could somehow stop all the endangered-animal-wearing, Hummer-driving, don't-give-a-blank-about the world people by making them realize they're killing our planet. And maybe replacing paper and other wood products with some sort of synthetic material.

Answer 3

It's not because of human activity that they're disappearing, it's because of human poverty. When you're too poor to care about anything but getting by, you shouldn't really be to blame.

The solution is in abolishing poverty in regions with large forests. One easy way to do this is with carbon credits, Brazil could become a first world country by selling it's carbon credits I'm sure.

Answer 4

By not buying wood based products.

Buying land that is forested and preserving it.

Or as "V" would say, Shutting down timder activities by any means posible, legaly or not.

Allso good education helps to realize the need to preserve and protect.

I'm sure many products that are made of wood can be made of other materials that are man made.

Answer 5

the only way we can stop it is if we can convince the government to stop destroying the rain forest and using the land that they chop down the trees from for farm land and then you know what?!! They dont even use the trees for ANYTHING!!! THEY ALSO DONT PLANT ANYMORE TREES TO REPLACE THE ONES THEY CUT DOWN "BECAUSE IT WOULD USE UP THE LAND THAT THEY COULD USE FOR FARMING"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

consume less, eat less, use less energy

Answer 7

by stopping DEFORESTATION and by doing AFFROESTATION..