Deforestation

CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION

So, what could be the reasons for deforestation. Sometimes trees are cut down so that people can do farming in place of it. Due to the demand of wood furniture around the world people cut down tress. Moreover, due to the growing population new town and cities are build in place of forests. And do not forget the industries. Industries need resources and large area to run their work and building a factory in a forest will fulfill both of these requirements so, trees are cut down so that factories could be built in place of it.

ARTICLE

Causes of deforestation in southwestern Madagascar: what do we know?

In this article, (Sussman et al., 1996 p.301) says that between 1950 and 1985, about 1.5% of the forests in eastern Madagascar were disappearing every year. People were cutting down trees for wood, farming and making space for animals to graze. Some other reasons people were moving, some people were also selling wood as their livelihood. In the months of February, March, August, and October people used to gather fuelwood when farming was not available. (Randriamanarivo, 1997). This article talks about how people in the area use forests and compare it to using the land for farming instead. IN the last 25 years, Madagascar has been al lot of changes politically, socially, and economically. Some experts think it has been a tough time for the country from 1975 to 1993. (Gow, 1997: p. 409)

Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina

Every planetary ecosystem is affected by land transformation (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005), making it one of the making it one of the most significant aspects of global change (Foley et al., 2005, Newbold et al., 2015, IPBES, 2019). The extension of its agricultural boundary has caused the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina to undergo some of the most significant global transformations in recent decades. Soybean farming, among other agricultural activities, is a major factor in the agricultural frontier's extension in South America, especially in the Argentine Dry Chaco region (NASA, 2020). (Geist et al., 2006, Verburg et al., 2009) talks about how people use the land, how they farm or take care of it. There was a study that looked at how natural areas are changed into farms or other types of agriculture. (Lambin et al., 2006). An analysis was conducted on the extent and trajectory of land use changes over the past 20 years, from 2001 to 2019. throughout 63% of the land cleared each year is due to ranching, which is the primary proximate driver of deforestation, though the pattern of land use expansion has changed throughout time and space. Land use transition trajectories showed a spatial pattern in which ranching has been replaced to drier areas by croplands. The trajectory of land use dynamics following deforestation has followed a permanent systematic temporal pattern of change, as evidenced by the intensity analysis of these transitions. A multiscale approach was utilized to analyze the land use patterns in the Dry Chaco following deforestation over the past two decades. Over the past 20 years, ranching has been the primary direct source of deforestation, and this tendency is still increasing today. Land use changes occur in a non-uniform manner across time. Therefore, to comprehend its dynamics, data spanning several years is required. Land use change processes are context-dependent and slow in comparison to other disturbances (Dale et al., 2000), especially when it comes to commercial and policy issues (FAOSTAT, 2021).