Why does deforestation occur'?

Question

i am doing an essay and need a mega amount of help :)

any information on the reasons behind deforestation would be great.

thx ;)

Answer 1

The reasons behind deforestation vary from region to region. In Africa, for example, much of the deforestation in some regions is occurring because people need wood for cooking fires. It is their only fuel and there are so many people now that the forests are disappearing rapidly.

In other areas of Africa and many parts of Southeast Asia and South America, it is occurring due to unchecked "slash-and-burn" agriculture in the rainforests. Farmers (some self-employed, some working for multinational corporations) cut down and burn a section of rainforest. They plant crops for a few seasons, until the soil is depleted of nutrients, then they move on to another patch and repeat the same process. Again, this is exacerbated by overpopulation - slash and burn is a traditional method of agriculture for many cultures, but traditionally, the land had enough time to heal and regrow between cultivation periods. Now it doesn't. Corporate plantations are also claiming much larger swathes of forest in a single season than traditional farmers might in their entire lifetime. This has been an especially severe problem in Indonesia, where smoke from millions of acres of fires has led to serious air pollution problems locally and in many neighboring countries, as well as serious threats to orangutans and other local wildlife.

At other times, it's political. Bush is doing his darndest to let his cronies run amok in our western forests, even while our eastern forests are recovering from earlier loggings and probably the most ecologically healthy they've been in a hundred years. One of his very first actions in office, for example, was lifting protections on a huge area of land set aside by Clinton for protection. The Forest Service routinely sells (public!) forests to logging companies for less money than it (the Forest Service) has spent to build roads (the logging companies' job, imho) in order to facilitate logging.

Answer 2

Well as the world becomes larger and larger and population of countries reach the billion mark we need more space.For housing and etc.and so the only place will be thoses thousands of miles of forest lands and hence deforestation occurs

Answer 3

mega amount of help, wow. a Filipino? superlatives.

anyway, deforestation, occurs becasue fo so many reasons.

we(humans) are already TOO MANY consuming TOO MUCH, TOO FAST.

we are craving for more CONSUMER GOODS and the companies are casuing these deforestation.

take for example the UNILEVER, makers of Dove, Knorr and other products. well, it turns out that one of their resources for a raw material of PALM OIL, is being extracted in Borneo, what they do in Borneo is they clear up forest just to make palm oil plantations the Orangutans their are now being extinct. and why do they create these products?> because WE CRAVE FOR IT.

KFC, and other companies MC Donalds there have been evidences that the feeds(forgot the right term) that they used(produced by a company that i also forgot the name) for their chickens are also coming from cleared forest for these plantations of Soya i think is the feed.

we need paper, we need matches, we need construction materials so, deforestation occurs because we need PLUS we WANT.

Answer 4

Deforestation usually occurs for one of two main reasons.  One is the deliberate removal and cutting down of trees.  Human beings are the perpetrators, and it is done mostly in response to the demands of the housing and construction industry.  Trees are cut down, to a lesser extent, for fuel to burn in the heating of houses and stoves.

Deforestation also occurs due to forest fires.  Some of them are caused by carelessness on the part of human beings.  Others start due to natural causes such as lightening.  They may appear to begin spontaneously.

Problems begin to surface when forests are removed or destroyed faster than they are replaced, and the ecosystem of which they were a part is changed.

Answer 5

Deforestation occures due to cutting down of trees. People cut down trees for their use like to make furniture, for fuel, paper, etc.; but they don't plant more plants and trees which makes soil loose results occurrence of floods, storms, etc.

Answer 6

well we need more land or living and paper, thats how a lot of people mke money to.