The leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon and Brazil, as of 2004, is cattle ranching. Find out what can be done to slow the process of deforestation.
Trees are 50 percent carbon. When they are felled or burned through Deforestation, the C02 they store escapes back into the air, thus causing Global Warming.
During the last few decades, the forest crisis has prompted many international, regional and national preservation initiatives, yet many have had little success.
Orchids are benefited rather than harmed by such selective felling. The free air movement and the increase in sunlight provided by the clearing away of several crowded trees and the undergrowth in an otherwise dense tropical rain forest, encourage growth of epiphytic orchids.
This discussion paper offers four aspects of the causes of deforestation - the predisposing conditions, the direct causes, the indirect causes, and the role of forest exploitation and plantation development in the loss of natural forests.
Forests are one of Europe's most important renewable resources and provide multiple benefits to society and the economy. They are also important for the conservation of European nature.
