Deforestation, is a major problem facing Asia where most of this precious resources and has the highest destruction rate of the entire world. Among the worst exploited in Asia, are Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya.
Nowadays More than half of Asia's remaining rainforest is under high threat.
What's the Problem?.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), deforestation is one of the most serious environmental problems facing Asia.
With some 88% of its rainforest already gone. Asia is loosing forest area more rapidly than any other regin. Between 1981 and 1990, Asia experienced and annual deforestation rate of nearly ten million acres or approximately 1.3 percent of the reign's total forest. The estimate rate for 1990-1995 is lower at 1.1 percent.
The rate of deforestation is highest in nearly five million acres a year in Asia.
Why is there a Problem?.
Logging has devastated many Asia's rainforest and is the primary cause of rainforest destruction. Other causes include clearing for agriculture, fuelwood harvesting, mining, irrigation, and hydroelectric projects, and urban expansion.
Illegal logging is also a major reason to deforestation, they cut down native rainforest trees outside protected are.
What does this Problem cause?.
Deforestation causes a range of problems a major one being the addition to the greenhouse gas emitions.
Residential minority groups, who live in rainforest reigns, are getting evicted for their native homeland by logging companies. This is just for money evicting native cultures from the native area to create profit.
Asian rain forest is possibly the only viable population of the Bengal tiger. The fish and forest products provide a living for up to 300 000 local families, destruction of the rainforest causes these families to struggle to survive because the resources they use to live are being destroyed.
The rainforest supplies a Habitat for several important wildlife species which can't be recreated.
Destroying the rainforest destroys their homes and their food supply. Rainforest destruction has already led to many species becoming extinct. ... People live in tropical rainforests, often in groups called tribes. ... Some places where rainforest tribes live are shown below on the map. Leopards live in the forests throughout Africa and Southeast Asia. ...
Tropical rainforests are the Earth's oldest living ecosystems. Fossil records show that the forests of Southeast Asia have existed in more or less their present form for 70 to 100 million years. ... The four major geographic regions in which tropical rain forests are found are: South and Central America, Africa and Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia New Guinea, and Australia. ... Once a rainforest is gone it cannot be replaced. ... The rainforest is "NOT" a renewable resource. ...
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Rainforest are found mainly in South and Central America (the Amazon), West and Central Africa, Indonesia, parts of Southeast Asia, and tropical Australia. ... (Rainforest Facts, n.d.). ... (Rainforest Facts, n.d.). ... (Wealth of Rainforest). ... The Search for Rainforest Drugs. ...
Rainforest are found mainly in South and Central America (the Amazon), West and Central Africa, Indonesia, parts of Southeast Asia, and tropical Australia. ... (Rainforest Facts, n.d.). ... (Rainforest Facts, n.d.). ... (Wealth of Rainforest). ... The Search for Rainforest Drugs. ...
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History of Rainforest 6. ... Types of Rainforest: - 1/ Tropical Rainforest - As found throughout the Amazon. ... They contain a high level of species diversity and are found in Sth and Central America, SE Asia, Western Pacific Region and Madagascar 2/ Seasonal Tropical Rainforest - Less species diversity, more scrub and grassland, higher incidence of fire, particularly in drier areas. Found in America's, Asia - Pacific and Africa, polewards from the Equator 3/ Temperate Deciduous Forest - These areas have been primarily cleared for settlement and agriculture. Found in Eurasia,...
It occurs all over the world, but mainly in tropical rainforests. ... The cutting down of trees will eventually distort convection currents, wind patterns, and rainforest regimes in tropical area regions. ... When rainforests are wiped out, livestock such as cattle is grown in these areas and supplied mainly to the western world. ... For example; Burger King has ceased imports of rainforest beef from Central and South America. ... Also several countries in Asia, such as India and Thailand have made deforestation a national emergency and therefore made it a priority to preserve their fo...
The Rainforest and Plants Within Rainforests are found mostly near the equator because temperatures there are a lot higher. ... The rainforest has a warm, moist climate. ... The main plants in the rainforest biome are trees. ... This bamboo can be found in the biome of the Southeast Asian rainforest. ... There was a rainforest facility and had every factor that would run a rainforest. ...
