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Logging can be sustainable and provide returns as the forest grows and produces more and more resources, however extensive, unsustainable deforestation causes:
-Drops in log and wood exports over time as the forest is cut down faster than it can grow (seen in Malaysia and the Philippines)
-Drops in secondary forest products, renewable products such as fruit, wood, thatch, resin, etc. ceases to grow in the forest as it is cut down
-Drops in the long term economy in favour of short term income as renewable resource exports fall as the resources are produced lessa nd less as deforestation outpaces growth of the forest
-Drops in ecotourism as the forest becomes less and less attractive to tourists
-Rural communities dependent on forest products are cut off from 20% of their income

Illegal logging is a big part of unsustainable deforestation and while some countries have moved to restrict it, some still struggle, up to 15 billion dollars in losses each year.

Developing countries that are dependent on exports and with growing economies are the most vulnerable to these pitfalls

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--> At the large scale, ecosystems and populations are very fragile.
--> Animals take a long time to adapt to small changes in environment - can often end up being susceptible to other problems due to that - the fungal infection rampant in amphibians currently being a good example.
--> Vulnerability of a single species can lead to species dependent on that species to die out, which causes a ripple effect that will take the ecosystem a very long time recover from, if it ever does.
--> Increasing temperatures worldwide are changing the environment of many previously-perfectly-adapted species, which can now no longer survive, and causing more extinctions due to that.
-->Problem compounded by deforestation - food sources are now elsewhere or simply gone for many species, causing them to become threatened or endangered if not extinct altogether.

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Local and regional consequences of deforestation

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Local and regional consequences of deforestation

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Impact of deforestation- Species loss, extinction, and disease

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Impact of deforestation- Species loss, extinction, and disease

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Exhaustive hunting of wildlife can reduce the species that contribute to the regeneration of the forest- Meha

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Cause: Increase of frequency and intensity of droughts, floods and forest fires. Melting of the arctic ice caps.Release in tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

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Cause: Increase of frequency and intensity of droughts, floods and forest fires. Melting of the arctic ice caps.Release in tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

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Consequence: global warming is speeding up desertification and deforestation.

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Local + Global weather impact (Water Cycle)

Promote Rainfall --> Greater Heat Absorption.

Forest Fires --> Biomass Aerosols --> Stagnate Rainfall => Positive Feedback Loop for Fire (Less rainfall = dry land = greater probability of large wildfires = feeds back to accelerate the cycle)

Long Distance Impacts (Brazil --> Texas; Central Africa --> Midwestern US; Southeast Asia --> China, Balkans)

Degradation of Rain Forests --> Over 10% of anthropogenic emissions

Greenhouse Gases --> Short-wave/long-wave effect on radiation

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"Logging, farming, deforestation, and other infrastructure developments" is what is stated in the article as the causes for deforestation.
Over 0.8 million km x km of the Amazon has been lost over the last fifty years, equal to all of India's forest cover.
Wildfires and land degradation are causing a further 120 thousand km x km of the amazon to be lost.

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Cause: Elements of propagation stored within environmental systems in their dormant states --> Disturbed due to unnaturally fast and imbalanced industrial practices --> Elements of propagation released into the environment in their active states

Consequence: Environmental degradation + global warming + habitat loss + desertification
-----------------------------------------------------------Cause: Dangerously high rates of deforestation that resulted in greater international attention being given to the safety of the amazon rainforest

Consequence: International Amazon Fund (Created as a result of international pressure - 2008)

Sub-consequence: Deforestation dropped to a record low level since the 1970s in 2012 at 4500 km^2
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Cause: 1.29 million sq. km lost within a 25 year time period from 1990 to 2015

Consequence: The deforestation, and subsequent land degradation that came about as a result of that have contributed to about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Sub-consequence: The contamination/ gradual removal of the natural systems within the Amazon rainforest have led to poor water quality that has affected both wildlife and rural settlements in its vicinity.

-Soham

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Cause: Melting of the arctic ice caps, thawing of siberin permafrost, global warming increases risks of extreme droughts floods and forest fires.

Consequence: Desertification

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Cause: Desertification

Consequence: Releasing large soil carbon into atmosphere, increasing global warming.

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Cause: Amazon losing 3-8% more forest

Consequence: Forest cover will not be able to regenerate, becomes dry grassland known as Cerrado, releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. Creates a condition where global warming illegal logging and forest can thrive.

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Cause: Amazon forest fires + deforestation

Consequence: A source which provides us 20% of the Earth's oxygen, regulates the water cycle,  of south america is degraded requires global attention since the destruction staggers these rates and could devastate populations that depend on it by causing habitat lose, higher carbon rates in our atmosphere, unbalanced water cycle.

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Cause:  Land degradation + Deforestation

Consequence: Losing 12,000 km2 of forest land each year on average, responsible for >20% of global greenhouse gases.

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Pre-Material Hypotheses:
Lumber industry
Clearing areas for urbanization
Wildfires due to Global Warming.
- Siddharth