Deforestation Threaten Plant Biodiversity and Climate Change
Journal Title: Current Investigations in Agriculture and Current Research - Year 2019, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Forests biologically are the most diverse land ecosystems of our planet. Tropical forests for example cover just 7% of the earth, but they support over half of all terrestrial plant and animal species. Forests still cover about 30 percent of total land area, yet, deforestation and forest degradation, including uncontrolled conversion of forest lands to agricultural use, continues at an alarming high rate in many countries of the world. Unlike some other resources, as: oil, coal, minerals etc. which considered exhaustible, forests fortunately have unique feature, in conditions of sustainable management they practically can be inexhaustible. That’s why sustainable development should become the crucial direction of forest management in future. These and other problems and benefits that forests unselfishly provide to people are considered in the articleForests assure such environmentally critical functions as: biodiversity, water and soil conservation, water supply and climate regulation; Forests provide habitats to about two third of all species on the earth; In highland countries forests have extremely critical importance for minimizing ecological and environmentally diverse effects like: erosion, landslides, mud-torrents, rock-falls. They defend highlanders from strong, cold winds and avalanches. In mountain spar resorts they regulate rain and melted snow currents helping their slow penetration into ground. Therefore, maintaining stable mineral water outputs of these resorts. In arid environments forests are crucial to food security in dry seasons. Over 90% of 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty depend on forests for some part of their livelihood. Half of the wood used in the world currently used for cooking, heat and light
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Tamaz Patarkalashvili
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