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Deforestation

Deforestation. By: Eliot Holmes, Cheyenne Frohlich , and Rae Jacobs. [ ]. What? . “Deforestation is clearing Earth’s forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of land.” – National Geographic. [ ]. Why? . Money

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Deforestation

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  1. Deforestation By: Eliot Holmes, Cheyenne Frohlich, and Rae Jacobs

  2. [ ] What? • “Deforestation is clearing Earth’s forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of land.” – National Geographic

  3. [ ] Why? • Money • People’s needs to provide for their families • Agriculture • Logging operations • Unintentional, such as wildfires or overgrazing

  4. [ ] How? • Slash and burn – Use fire to prepare fields for cultivation and then abandon those fields when they quit being productive. • Cattle ranching – Cattle eat away at miles of irreplaceable forest lands every year. • Fell and Mill – Loggers knock down trees and then mill them, illegally.

  5. [ ] Consequences? • Soil erosion with loss of cover from vegetation. • Silting of rivers, lakes, and dams. • Extinction of species because forests contain more than half of all species on the planet. • Desertification • Disruption of the water cycle because more than half the water in the Amazon is contained in plants in the forest. • Deforestation contributes 1/3 of all CO2 releases.

  6. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Slash_and_burn

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