AVOIDING DEFORESTATION

Logging and Deforestation

The small farmer plays a big role, but it is modern industry that too cuts down the trees. The logging industry is fueled by the need for disposable products. 11 million acres a year are cut for commercial and property industries (Entity Mission 1). Peter Heller found that McDonald�s needs 800 square miles of trees to make the amount of paper they need for a year�s supply of packaging, Entity Mission found that British Columbia manufactures 7, 500,000 pairs of chopsticks a day, and the demand for fuel wood is so high that predictions say that there will be a shortage by the year 2000. Logging does too have its repercussions. The logging industry not only tries to accomplish all this but it even indirectly helps the "shifted cultivators" and others to do more damage. The amount of damage that this adds to the forests can not be measured nor can that of the illegal logging.

Cattle Grazing and Deforestation

Another of the more devastating forces behind deforestation is cattle grazing. With the international growth of fast food chains this seems to be an evident factor in the clearing of trees today. Large corporations looking to buy beef for hamburger and even pet food seek cheap prices and are finding them with the growth of cattle grazing (Heller 3). In the Amazon region of South America alone there are 100,000 beef ranchers (Heller 3). As the burger giants of industrialized society are making high demands for more beef, more forests are being torn down. Once the trees are gone the land is often overgrazed. In some places the government wants this to happen. Cattle grazing is big profit that can�t be turned down.

PICTURES OR DEFORESTATION

IT IS BAD TO CUT DOWN THE TREES BECAUSE SOME OF THE ANIMALS ARE LIVING IN THE TREES AND THE PLANS ARE THE ANIMALS FOOD AND NOT ONLY ANIMALS THAT NEEDS TREES HUMANS ALSO NEEDS THE TREES BECAUSE IF ITS A SUNNY DAY HUMANS CAN RELAX UNDER THE TREE WHEN THE TREE IS TALL THE TREE WILL HAVE A SHADOW.