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LiveSTock ANd deforestation
May 6, 2008 - 09:09 AM
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Trees are been cut down for livestock,and for timber.Farms and houses need power and water, so more land is cleared for dams and canals.
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Re: LiveSTock ANd deforestation
May 16, 2008 - 03:56 PM
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I have one thing to tell you, we need wood to supply our future and our lives, we need wood to make furnitures, there are no reason why we shouldn't use wood as a material.
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Re: LiveSTock ANd deforestation
June 29, 2008 - 10:42 AM
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Cutting the trees is not a problem. The main problem is how to handle and manage the forests.
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Re: LiveSTock ANd deforestation
August 25, 2008 - 04:04 AM
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Its quite reasonable to both thin woods and harvest mature trees: where continuous cover (ie maintaining the forest canopy without clear felling) is practised a more interesting ecosystem will result. Harvested timber can be a fuel or have many other uses. Livestock should be discouraged from woods and natural fauna should be kept in balance by management. Growing population and climate change will impact on our woods and demand for timber products: we should be planting more woods rather than allowing deforestation. Schemes like FSC (www.fsc.org) discourage illegal logging but unfortunately greed cultivates a criminal element. The United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat (www.un.org/esa/forests) will be holding an Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting "To develop proposals for the development of a voluntary global financial mechanism/ portfolio approach/ forest financing framework on 10 -14 November 2008 at UNOV, Vienna, Austria. Suriname are hosting a conference in September about this. The Food and Agriculture Organization has its own forestry page (www.fao.org/forestry/home/en) and the World Forestry Congress is to be held in Buenos Aires Argentina in September 2009. So what can interested members of TakingITGlobal do to make a relevant impact? Well you could join the young foresters group which I formed: it hasn't many members yet! We could agree important bullet points to both support what action being taken that we favour and address issues not being considered and perhaps develop them into a discussion paper that many of us support and submit it to those meetings. How do you feel?!!
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Re: LiveSTock ANd deforestation
May 25, 2009 - 12:03 PM
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The great Forested areas of Brazil has been reduced to barren lands. Extensive and indiscriminate cutting of trees/shrubs/ forests,to create land for ranching.
Agroforestry and siliviculture addresses the concerns of the local people to harvest non-forest prodcuts from the forest like mushrooms,fruits,herbs,firewood ,roots and game for meat.
Bwindi Impenetratable forest in Uganda which habituates Mountain and Lowland Goriilas is an example where the people have come to appreciate and participate in the management of forest resources.
The grazing lands have become infertile to produce fodder for the livestock,many herders are encroaching on the fringes of the forest for survival
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