Forest Conservation Essay

effective structural parasites in forest communities (Forseth, 2004). The economic impact of kudzu in the United States is estimated at $100–500 million lost per year in forest productivity. In addition, it takes about $5,000 per hectare (2.5 acres) per year to control kudzu. For power companies, it costs about $1.5 million per year to repair damage to power lines. Kudzu management is also of great concern in the management of national…

A forest is a serving tract with countless purposes for many species of animals, plants and also humans; it balances the oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which assists the environment and preserves the variety of nature. Forests are considered the most crucial part of our ecosystem and we would face a lot of consequences if we keep losing more of our forests. We’re losing more of the forests on a daily basis through deforestation, whether it’s done by clearing out forests burning,…

connected to the sources of the forest and the quality of a good forestry and a good maintenance of environmental values leads to a quality lifestyle of the mortals. Different people have different values and interest on the forestry. Nature lovers and animal lovers treasures the forestry like their life while the business minded people will only see forestry as another source of fortune. At the current era, 30 percent of the world’s land is still covered with forest,…

According to Nichols et al. (2006), the earliest recorded monoculture dated back to 1368, in which several 100 acres of the Lorenzer Forest near Nuremberg was sown with Pinus sylvestris to produce industrial timber. The Western concept of monocultures also developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe because of the scarcity of timber,…

2.0 Deforestation 2.1 Introduction Forests are areas where trees are dominant vegetation. They include closed canopy forests, where leaves and twigs of adjacent trees touch, and open woodlands, where only some leaves and twigs of adjacent trees overlap. Deforestation is the irreversible destruction of native forests and woodlands. Today there is much concern with the sustainability of the planet’s biological resources, particularly our forests. However, we seems to be destroying them by…

available for other uses. Forest can be destroyed very quickly. “Some 46-58 thousand square miles of forest are lost each year-equivalent to 36 football fields every minute”. (World Wildlife Fund) This problem has been threatens to humans, animals and plants species and environment. There are many causes of deforestation. One of the main reason is cattle ranching. Urban Construction, Agriculture, commercial purposes and illegal logging are some of common causes. Forests are cut down in order to…

The Red-tailed Black cockatoo also called the Calyptorhynchus banksii are under conservation. There are five sub-species of Red-tailed Black-cockatoo (Red-tailed Black cockatoo, 2014-16) and the two southern subspecies are near threatened. These cockatoos are under the Australian Government Act of Endangered (Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999), the (Flora & Fauna Guarantee Act 1988) in Victoria and the Endangered (National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972) in South…

The Smoky Mountains are home to a wide variety of plants. The Great Smoky Mountains national park is over 800 square miles, and throughout this vast space is found a large diversity of plants. The national park is over 95% forested, and is sometimes referred to as the “wildflower national park”. While over 12,000 plant species have been discovered in the park, there is evidence that there may be as many as 90,000 unfound species. The range of elevations throughout the Smoky Mountains makes it a…

South America and is full of diversity and beauty. The rainforest holds about 90-140 metric tons of carbon that helps steady local and global climate. However, in the section that is in Peru, gold mining and deforestation has negatively impacted the forest resulting in the climate to affect animals, plants and even people. More than 30 million people live in the amazon and depend on the resources it provides. They all rely on the amazons natural food, shelter and survival. Many organizations,…

Vancouver is a coastal city in B.C. It has a population growth of 4.4%. This change had affected Vancouver because they now have more pollution and deforestation. Once Vancouver got more people the demand for vehicles has increased and the demand of other resources has increased as well. Since more people are using vehicles the pollution has increased there. It didn’t affect vancouver that much but, the increase has been a concern to the government. They decided to lower hybrid cars to help stop…