Deforestation
- Created by: Jadyn
- Created on: 20-05-18 11:14
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- Deforestation
- Causes
- Population Pressure
- Mineral Extraction
- Commercial farming
- Commercial Logging
- Impacts
- Environmental
- Soil exposed -> soil erosion
- More water reaches soil -> reduction in soil fertility
- Amazon stores 100 billion tonnes of CO2, deforestation -> global warming
- Brazil losing 55 million tonnes of topsoil pa
- Economic
- Can destroy resources which countries depend on
- Can reduce attractiveness of area to tourists
- Brazil made $6.9 billion from trading cattle
- Local Brazilian rubber tappers lost livelihoods as trees have been cut down
- Buenaventura mining company (Peru) employs >3100 people
- Can destroy resources which countries depend on
- Environmental
- Sustainable Management
- Selective logging
- Replanting
- Ecotourism
- Education
- International Hardwood Agreements
- Conservation
- Reducing Debt
- Causes
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