The Forest Buddies |
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Save The Forests, Save Our Lives |
| Population growth and deforestation |
| Reforestation Developed countries rely more on technology than agriculture for their economic growth. In India, aggressive forest policies have balanced deforestation against agricultural expansion and development. In spite of India’s rapidly rising population, it has a policy to replant their lost forests. Similar efforts in China have yielded even more trees being replanted. This has been successful as policy-makers begin to understand the problems that are occurring as a result of the effects of uncontrolled deforestation such as wind and soil erosion that can cause massive flooding and severe snowstorms. Governments should play a key role in valuing, replanting and managing forests for the above reasons. Sources: Frederick A.B. Meyerson, "Human Population Density, Deforestation and Protected Areas Management: A Multi-scale Analysis of Central America, Guatemala, and the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Proceedings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, XXIV General Population Conference (Salvador, Brazil, 2001). |