1.Introduction
Deforestation is the act of clearing the forest area, which has significant influence on the whole ecosystem. Nowadays the process of deforestation is an important issue. That is why the number of web-based monitoring systems have been created. One of them will be presented in the following laboratory work. Generally, two different areas will be analyzed and described.
2. Cote-d'Ivoire deforestation
Territory of Ivory Coast is deforested on 85- 90 percents, as I see it from Global Forest Changes map. There are could be several causes for so huge areas with forest losses. However, the very main reason is two Civil Wars during last 10 years of the forests study period.
Speaking about forest gains on the Cote-D’Ivoire territory, I can just prove my words that are written above. Country have a big problem with forest gains. The only good examples of reforestation are situated near the ocean, on the coast, beside cities. And only small territories are far from settlements.So, I think, the most of forest gains are due to agriculture factor.
Looking on Cote-D’Ivoire forest losses you will not see something surprising. Deforestation is not leading anywhere during 2000- 2014 years of raking data. It is because of the same use of forests by habitants and almost same climatic conditions. But, there are also unique territories of forest losses in 2000 and 2014. And for the 2000, deforested areas are bigger. Speaking about the very beginning of the twentieth century, deforested areas are near San- Pedro and Sassandra cities. In contrast, forest losses in 2014 areas are situated in the west of Cote-D’Ivoire.
The next thing I am going to do- compare gains and losses of Cote-D’Ivoire and Riau, Indonesia territories. And I will start with forest losses of each territory. As I said, African country lost mostly 90 percent of its forest, but If I compare the first look with Riau- I see giant forest losses through almost all territories, namely near the coast.
In contrast, of forest losses, we continue with forest gains. If I look at giant forest losses in Indonesia, I also can see quite big forest gains in giving area, in exactly the same territories. Unfortunately, I can not say the same thing about Cote-D’Ivoire, where forest losses are happening through all territories of the African country and examples of reforestation exist only in small amounts near the coast.
There are 4 major impacts that are due to tropical deforestation: biodiversity impacts, soil impacts, social impacts and climate impacts.
Biodiversity impacts lead to etinxtion of some flora and fauna species or makes them vulnerable to extinction.
Impacts of deforestation to soil are catastrophically bad. Soil losses its minerals and is not suitable for plants to growth.
Tropical forests are home for native habitant of different countries. So, the use forests in agriculture and hunting – all features for their surviving. And, if you think logically – you will understand that deforestation will lead to more freaquent death cases of natives.
Tropical forests are one of the main parts of water cycle. If deforestation happens – forests will recycle less water, so there would be less rainfalls. Also it leads to the rise of temperature. And as further result – global warming, that is also bad for the Earth.
According to the NASA Earth Observatory article, the 5 countries that cleared the most tropical forest by area are Brazil, Indonesia, Sudan, Myanmar and Democratic Respublic of the Congo.
3.ReferencesEarthobservatory.nasa.gov,. (2016). Tropical Deforestation : Feature Articles. Retrieved 15 January 2016, from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Deforestation/deforestation_update3.php
