Essays on Deforestation

In the last ten years, there has been a surge in deforestation in West Africa as poor cocoa farmers are clearing rainforests; there’s a new law that legalizes trees being removed from thousands of square miles of classified forest for industrial chocolate manufacturers to use. Because of this rainforests on the Ivory Coast are shrinking....

“Oxygen cant fight the starvations of a poor, leaves cant earn you a meal and widespread roots cant approach ones happiness”. Although deforestation is often thought of negatively, there are some major advantages we can get from the practice. Otherwise, it would not be happening, right? Deforestation positively impacts growth and production on contrary to...

“Save the trees”. This is an environmental slogan I am sure we have all heard before. We have been surrounded by this line for years. Yet we still don’t act upon it. We rapidly clear massive amounts of forests to benefit our needs, but we don’t realize how harmful this is. We constantly waste huge...

Deforestation takes 7 billion trees each year. That’s 200,000 acres every day and 55,600 trees a minute. These many trees get cut down for lumber, spaces for housing, and land to grow food. But, taking this many trees away has some negative effects. Deforestation contributes to global warming and trees can be a limited resource....

Everyone breathing and alive is using one or more products made from deforestation. Even though one might feel guilty about cutting a tree for their convenience, they really don’t have a choice. That makes Deforestation a polarizing issue. However, federal legislation could help us minimize the negative effects deforestation has on the environment. While also...

Have you ever imagined a world where there were no trees? Did you know that about half of the forests have been cleared according to the FAO. We are using the wood for furniture, houses, paper and fuel. All we are doing is removing tree but are we re-planting them? Mining is becoming a feature...

Introduction And Background Deforestation is defined as legal and illegal cutting of forest or trees. Both natural process and artifical activities can lead to deforestation that affects wildlife, ecosystems, climate and weather pattern. The issue has been reported globally have been protesting against such uncontrollable cutting of forest since last fifty years. To understand the...

Cattle pastures account for 60% of the deforested land in the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle-ranching was first publicized in the 1980s that was the first time the public was informed upon these issues while cattle-ranching and the impacts started 20 years before that. Cattle-ranching is one of the main exports with the economy making $250 per...

Deforestation Essay Trees Today, Gone Tomorrow. What once was a green Earth is now becoming a bleak, bland Earth, losing its greenness and now becoming a look-alike for the Red Planet Mars. Rainforests once covered 14% of Earth’s surface. Now they cover a mere 6% of the whole of Earth. This is concerning and it’s...

The world has been losing trees more and more every year, there are many countries that are still recovering from tragic deforestation like the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has recently signed a couple of bills that will help lower carbon emissions, and have been working to reforest what they have lost. But, right next...