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Economic vs Environmental Impacts of Deforestation - Coggle Diagram
Economic vs Environmental Impacts of Deforestation
Economic
Improves transportation
Easier access to raw materials, like minerals and timber
Especially easy when roads are paved
Resources can be transported away and sold
Deforestation can be sold for a good price abroad
Trees like ebony and mahogany
If sold, they can improve the economic status of the country
Deforestation can improve agriculture
With more space to plant things, it's easier to farm them.
Provide money, food and jobs for the country's growing population
Small-scale farmers may loose out, however.
Lots of mineral deposits
Including bauxite, iron ore, manganese, gold, silver and diamonds
These can be exported and sold
Money from said exports can be used to improve hospitals and education
Environmental
All use mentioned opposite involves removing forest cover
If on the off chance the forest is allowed to recover, it is rarely as it was before.
Hardwood trees are hard to replace
They take many years to grow, especially to large heights.
Removing a carbon sink
Soils are damaged as the nutrient cycle is destroyed
Soils are also exposed to rainfall and get eroded
This clogs up the rivers with sediment
Soil leeching
Affects the water cycle
Evaporation
Flooding
Precipitation
More surface runoff
Animal habitat lost if trees are cut down
Indigenous people may be affected too
Their numbers have declined
Census reveals that there are 817,000 indigenous peoples
Affects biodiversity
Despite coving 12% of the land, they host 50-90% of the world's species
We lose 1 species a day due to deforestation
Losing a genetic resource and potential medicines and technologies
Social
Key Words
Biodiversity
Variety of life in the world or a particular habitat
Deforestation
The chopping down and removal of trees to clear an area of forest
Logging
The business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills