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The use of tropical woods can basically be ignored in the discussion of deforestation. 1. When you harvest wood, the forest will generally recover and new tree
by ltbarcly3 5y ago
The use of tropical woods can basically be ignored in the discussion of deforestation.
1. When you harvest wood, the forest will generally recover and new trees will grow.
2. Lumber only accounts for about 2% of the total area deforested.
3. Agriculture accounts for 90+% of deforested area, most of this being for cattle or soy, and once land is converted to agriculture the change is generally permanent.
- m0llusk 5y agoThese are good ideas, but the numbers are flatly unbelievable. Until quite recently most tropical hardwood was harvested illegally and distributed through black markets. This often involved either clear cutting or selective removal of rare trees or both. There is very little if any hard information about exactly how much tropical deforestation in the 1980s involved lumber, though there has been significant progress in enforcement since then.