Not enough drinking water

Use water for crops or drinking

Requires space - can lead to

deforestation (Jesse H.)

Overuse may result in flooding (Raza)

Government places laws to stop deforestation

Europe driven by profit

War

Super nationalism

Endangered Species

Illegal logging

Drys River Basins

Uganda, Nepal, Oceana, Fiji

Desertification

Colombia consumes a lot of wood causing a

 little over 2 million acres each year to be

consumed, but only replaces a 12 thousand

of the 2 million acres, this also an affect of trying to save/ protect their rainforest (conservation efforts). (Sydney B.)  

Clearing forests to help irrigation (by building a dam) (Jesse H.)

Poland is rapidly losing forest as they are cleared for farm land so the govt't is now rewarding them for planting trees on their fallow fields conservation effort) (Johnelle W.)

Malaysia has the highest rate of deforestation and because of this a lot of endangered animals are dying. (Dani)

Mexico

War, land abandoned

Land is lost

Iraq

Pakistan

Deforestation

Want for Coffee

Djibouti - desert taking over the little arable land it has and has pushed Djibouti to back the Great Green Wall project ( Jill Landin)

Yemen- Yemen's heavy sandstorms cuase soil erosion, which damages crops. People are migrating to cities in search of jobs due to the loss of farmland by desertification. (Grayson Galloway)

Mongolia- cows that are being ranched are destroying the meadows and grasslands of Mongolia, and since the Gobi desert is right there, this is a problem. (Jacob D. Hionis I)

Profit Driven

Poaching

Preserve national parks or

tourist attractions (Jesse H.)

Recycle trash to produce steam

And power turbines

(Niyati Costa Rica)

Driven by the desire for profit/money

Resulted in the death of 3 conservationists (Terrorism)

Depletes the forest and threatens the lives of nearby Peruvian citizens

Jacob M

Deforestantion

For crops destroying wetlands