Effects of deforestation on humans and the environment
If deforestation and factory farming continues unabated, our planet, and our species, are headed for disaster. What are the causes of deforestation? In general, human activity is the driving force behind …
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How Does Agriculture Affect Deforestation?
Farmland expansion is responsible for 90 percent of deforestation around the world, including crops grown for both human and animal consumption, as well as the clearing of forests for animal grazing. …
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Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics
However, deforestation of tropical forest, with a net rate of 5.5 million hectares annually in 2010–2015, profoundly impacts soil properties and functions. Reforestation is also prominent in the ...
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(PDF) Environmental Impacts of Mining: A Study of Mining
In Africa, Ghana is the second largest gold producer, contributing to about 5.7% of the country's GDP. The mining sector in Ghana consists of both small-scale and large-scale mining, each of ...
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(PDF) Deforestation: Causes, Effects and Control Strategies
On farming activities, majority of the respondents practiced subsistence farming (55%), using manual land preparation methods (75%) and responded that farming did not have any effect on wildlife ...
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(PDF) Deforestation:Human Causes,Consequences and
Natural causes of deforestation could be as result of forest fires, droughts, exotic animals, floods, overpopulation of foreign animals and climate change. That notwithstanding, human activities ...
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Understanding the socio-economic causes of deforestation: a …
IntroductionThis paper investigates the links between deforestation and key economic, social, environmental, and geographical variables. We focus on per capita GDP, total forest cover, and the population across a diverse sample of countries from five continents for the last three decades.MethodsThis study utilizes a regression model …
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(PDF) Deforestation: Causes, Effects and Control …
Human activities often referred to as land use, such as mining, logging, urbanization, tourism, overgrazing and agricultural …
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Study finds biodiversity impacts of agricultural deforestation …
Agriculture is the foundation of human civilization and a prime example of our impact on Earth. Almost 40% of our planet's ice-free land ... deforestation impacts biodiversity.
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Review of Environmental and Health Impacts of Mining in Ghana
History of Mining in Ghana. There is evidence of gold extraction activities in Ghana as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., as gold deposits attracted Arab traders into the country.7 These activities were strategically located along rivers where sediments believed to contain deposits of gold were washed constantly to separate the gold …
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(PDF) Deforestation:Human Causes,Consequences …
That notwithstanding, human activities are among the principal causes of global deforestation with agricultural expansion, cattle breeding, timber extraction, mining, oil extraction, dam...
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How Deforestation Works | HowStuffWorks
Deforestation is the removal or destruction of large areas of forest or rainforest. Deforestation happens for many reasons, such as logging, agriculture, natural disasters, urbanization and mining.There are several ways to clear forest — burning and clear-cutting the land are two of the more common methods.
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(PDF) ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF SMALL-SCALE MINING …
Effects of small-scale mining on agriculture. Adapted and modified from Aborah (2013). The conceptual framework explains the effects of small-scale mini ng activities, majority of which
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Deforestation and Forest Loss
'Forest loss' or 'tree loss' captures two fundamental impacts on forest cover: deforestation and forest degradation. Deforestation is the complete removal of trees for the conversion of forest to another land …
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Deforestation Linked to Agriculture | Global Forest …
Deforestation Linked to Agriculture This indicator aims to monitor the role of specific commodities—namely, cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee, and wood fiber—in deforestation linked to agriculture.
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Deforestation Linked to Agriculture | Global Forest …
Globally, the conversion of forests to cattle pasture resulted in an estimated 45.1 Mha of deforestation between 2001 and 2015, five times more than for any of the other analyzed commodities. 5 Much of this deforestation …
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MINING IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS AND …
to be an act of "mining ourselves out of existence", because the basic human needs for survival, such as the need for clean water, clean air, and food, which are derived from agricultural lands, are being destroyed by the mining activities in the area. The signs of the impacts of mining activities on agricultural lands within Kyebi and its
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Deforestation: Causes, Effects and Control Strategies
Deforestation is primarily a concern for the de veloping countries of the tropics (Myers, 1994) as it is shrinking areas of the tropical forests (Barraclough and Ghimire, 2000) …
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The Impact of Deforestation, Urbanization, and Changing Land …
Numerous drivers of deforestation and forest degradation have significantly accelerated the pace of net forest loss in this region, including land settlements, logging, illegal cattle ranching, large-scale agriculture (e.g., coffee and palm oil plantations), and subsistence farming [1,22,27,41,42,43,44,45]. In the last two decades, the three ...
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Assessing the impact of mining on deforestation in India
In the Indian context, Ranjan (2019) assessed the effects of mining activity on deforestation across more than 300 districts in India, and they reported that mineral groups, such as coal, iron ...
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Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Industrial mining contributes to deforestation in the Amazon, and the extent of effect could occur beyond areas of land explicitly permitted for mining. Here, Sonter et al. show that deforestation ...
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Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in …
2. The many ways mining activities impact biodiversity. Mining affects biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (site, landscape, regional and global) through direct (i.e. mineral extraction) and indirect processes (via industries supporting mining operations, and external stakeholders who gain access to biodiversity-rich areas as the result of …
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Agriculture and Deforestation
Increasing the relative value of natural land in agriculture may spurr land conver-sion, but factor market constraints paired with improvements in existing land productivity may …
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(PDF) Deforestation and forest degradation impact on Environment
Deforestation refers to the process of clearing or removing large areas of forests or trees, typically to convert the land to other uses such as agriculture, urban development, or mining.
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Deforestation and Forest Degradation | Threats | WWF
The primary causes of forest degradation are logging activities, livestock grazing, and the construction of roads. Deforestation is a particular concern in tropical rain forests because these forests are home to much of the world's biodiversity. In the Amazon alone, around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years, mainly due to ...
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Deforestation and Forests Degradation Impacts on the …
While commercial agriculture is responsible for 40% of global deforestation, local small-scale traditional farming, urban expansion, infrastructure development, and mining activities account for an estimated 33, 10, 10, and 7% of deforestation, respectively (Fasona et al. 2018).
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Deforestation: Facts, causes & effects | Live Science
Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees from a forest. Deforestation can include clearing the land for farming or livestock, or using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing ...
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Quarter 4 Module 2: Soil Erosion: The Process That
Other human activities contribute to soil erosion, such as gardening, quarrying, mining, deforestation, bad farming, and kaingin. a. Gardening causes soil erosion when digging the soil for planting. It affects the soil profile. Even walking through a garden for planting induces erosion.
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(PDF) What causes deforestation in Indonesia?
Figure 3. Proportion of deforestation 2001–2016 caused by each driver category, by major region of Indonesia. 6. Table 3. The proportion of deforestation 20012016 caused by each driver category ...
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Deforestation and Forests Degradation Impacts on the …
First Online: 28 April 2022 802 Accesses 1 Citations Part of the Water Science and Technology Library book series (WSTL,volume 104) Abstract Forests are important …
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