Malaysia Deforestation Tropical rainforest
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- Created on: 04-04-18 08:30
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- Malaysia
- Facts
- Located in South East Asia
- 67% of lang covered by rainforest
- Between 2000 and 2013 forest area larger than Denmark was destroyed
- Causes
- Logging
- Clear felling - total destruction of habitat
- Selective logging - only full grown trees leaving important unharmed
- Road Building
- access to mining area or projects
- machinery and transport
- Energy Development
- Bakun Dam second highest in Asia (205m)
- energy to industrialised Peninsular
- Reservoir flooded over 700km2 of forest and farmland
- Mining Extraction for oil and gas
- Population Pressure -transmigration out of cities
- 15000 hectares felled 1956-60
- Farming
- Largest export - Palm oil 10 year tax incentive increasing plantation
- Subsistence - slash and burn creates fertility but causes large wildfires
- Logging
- Impacts
- Soil erosion as no roots of trees and plants to bind them together
- Destruction of ecosystem and habitat = loss of biodiversity
- Main Range has >600 species and 25% native plants
- Trees = moisture via transpiration less trees =less moisture and more heat energy
- Economic gains = Jobs e.g mining and taxes = improve public services and infrastructure
- Economic loss = pollution and dry climate leads to water shortage. Less tourism. Global warming devastating crops
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