Deforestation

Definition

Excess cutting of tree forest without plantation is called deforestation.
                                 Forest produce vital oxygen and provide homes for people and wildlife. Many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live in forests, and 1.6 billion people rely on benefits forests offer, including food, fresh water, clothing, traditional medicine, and shelter.
                                Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area.

Facts about deforestation

1. Tropical forests are being destroyed at a rate of about 8 million hectares (31,000 square miles) a year
2. Since the 1960s, nearly half of the world’s rainforests have been lost.
3. Indonesia has the highest deforestation rate in the world, losing 15 million acres of forest between 2000 and 2012.
4. We’re losing 18.7 million acres of forests annually, equivalent to 27 soccer(About 36 football fields) fields every minute.
5. More than 1 billion rural people depend on forests to some extent and over 90 percent of people living in extreme poverty.
6. In the Amazon, around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years, mostly due to forest conversion for cattle ranching. 
7. It is estimated that 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions are the result of deforestation.
8. The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation.

Cause of deforestation

1. Overpopulation growth 
2. Construction of buildings 
3. Construction of road and Railways and dams 
4. Use of wood in industries 
5. Forest fire 
6. Development of projects 
7. Overgrazing 
8. Shifting cultivation known as Jhoom kheti mining
9. Attack of pets

More population=(More houses,roads,Furniture) =Leads to more deforestation 

Effect of deforestation

1. Environmental pollution 
2. Greenhouse effect 
3. Ecosystem unbalance 
4. Loss of biodiversity 
5. Change of climatic conditions 
6. Desertification 
7. Soil erosion 
8. Loss of soil fertility 
9. Land Degradation and draught

Control measures of deforestation

1. Afforestation social forestry 
2. Conservation of forest resources 
3. Control of overpopulation growth 
4. Control of shifting cultivation 
5. Creating awareness in public related to forest wealth 
6. The government should propose a strict rule for the conservation of forest wealth.
7. By creating protective areas