Logging…. Flashcards
Logging
Much of it is illegal. Valuable hardwood trees like mahogany are cut down and exported for
Substance farming
Locals move into tropical rainforests to grow food for themselves and their families.
Commercial farming
mostly due to cattle ranching.
Tres arecut down to provide land to rear
caelt to supply the beef and leather industries.There are also large commercial farms growing
crops
ekil s o y .
Energy development:
Dama generating hydroelectric power floods huge
a r e a s fo land.
Selective logging
Instead of clearing big sections of forest, only specific trees are felled.
These are removed by helicopter or dragged out by animals like elephants.
The cycle of destruction is managed and the forest can regenerate.
X The amount of timber obtained is reduced.
Replanting
Forest seeds grown in nurseries are planted to recreate the original forest.
Some success, especially if done soon after deforestation.
X Impossible to recreate the ecosystem.
Conservation
National parks and nature reserves
established to stop deforestation.
Effective at preserving the forest.
* Economic development opportunities are reduced.
Ecotourism
Small-scale tourism where tourists stay in ecolodges and are educated about the rainforest by local guides.
Local people earn money through conserving the environment.
X Too small scale to have a large economic benefit.
International tropical
hardwood agreements
The 2006 International Tropical
Timber Agreement (ITTA) promotes the rainforests sale of timber from sustainable sources (le.g., selective logging) by registering each tree felled.
Mineral extraction
minerals (e.g. gold and iron ore) are mined and sold to make money.
Deforestation in environment impacts
Soil erosion, reduced soil fertility, no co2 removed from atmosphere,
Deforestation economic impacts
jobs created by farming mining and logging, money from selling, destroys resources that counties depend on, reduces tourists, live hoods of local people destroyed.
Tropical rainforests important for ppl and environment bc
High diversity of plants and animals. Product,s are madre like rubber coffe medicines. Economic benefits. Reduces green house emissions because of absorbing co2. Climate change affects all people . Regulate water cycle and climate.
