Wat is the difference between forest degradation and deforestation?

Question

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Answer 1

To degrade something s to make it worse, reduce its quality, performance, or beauty.

Deforestation is the physical act of completely REMOVING the trees from the forest, or clear cutting. The latter does NOT really degrade the forest so much as it destroys it.

Answer 2

de deuce is right :D

Answer 3

one is more extreme

Answer 4

simply put, degradation means the forest is still there, but in "bad health"--loss of habitats, loss of trees, inability to replace trees naturally, erosion, lack of plant and animal diversity.

deforestation means the forest no longer exists at all, all the trees are gone.

Answer 5

DEFINTION OF DEFORESTATION:~

Deforestation defined broadly can include not only conversion to non-forest, but also degradation that reduces forest quality - the density and structure of the trees, the ecological services supplied, the biomass of plants and animals, the species diversity and the genetic diversity. A narrow definition of deforestation is: the removal of forest cover to an extent that allows for alternative land use. The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) uses a broad definition of deforestation, while the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) uses a narrow definition.

Definitions can also be grouped as those which refer to changes in land cover and those which refer to changes in land use. Land cover measurements often use a percent of cover to determine deforestation. This type of definition has the advantage in that large areas can be easily measured, for example from satellite photos. A forest cover removal of 90% may still be considered forest in some cases. Under this definition areas that may have few values of a natural forest such as plantations and even urban or suburban areas may be considered forest.

Land use definitions measure deforestation by a change in land use. This definition may consider areas to be forest that are not commonly considered as such. An area can be lacking trees but still considered a forest. It may be a land designated for afforestation or an area designated administratively as forest

DEFINITION OF FOREST DEGRADATION:~

Impoverishment of standing woody material mainly caused by human activities such as over-grazing, over-exploitation (for firewood in particular), repeated fires, or due attacks by insects, diseases, plant parasites or other natural causes such as cyclones. Very often degradation does not show up so much in decrease of woody vegetation but rather as a gradual reduction in biomass, changes in species composition and soil degradation.

The term forest degradation is sometimes used in forestry, existing definitions are generally inadequate to capture actions that change carbon stocks because they lack specificity. These definitions commonly refer to reductions in the productive capacity of the forest and changes within the forest class (from closed to open forest), which negatively affect the stand or site and, in particular, that lower the biological productivity capacity and diversity.

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