Deforestation in Madagascar

Deforestation in Madagascar ?!??!?!?!

Citations:

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Solution to Problem 3:

Business Plan:

1) Send a SMS to Madagascar people in languages (English Malagasy and French)

2) Have to paid Malagasy ariary to them,

when you want something.

3) They can be offered a free gas stove.

Detailed Idea:

What will contain in the SMS is that we can ask the local people to use the toilet and they will be paid 10 Malagasy ariary and if they need gas, they need to pay 15 Malagasy ariary, so not only the Lowatt Company is getting 5 Malagasy more, the environment of Madagascar won't be affected.

The endemic spiny forests of Madagascar are being

cut at an alarming rate for charcoal production.

In eking out a living selling little piles of charcoal along roads in

southwestern Madagascar, local people turn towards the nearest

plant source, which in this case is often Alluaudia trees.

Problem 3:

Fuelwood and Charcoal Production

Solution for Problem 1:

Problem 2:

Tavy or slash-and-burn agriculture

Tavy is the lifeblood of Malagasy culture and the Malagasy economy. Tavy is mostly used for converting tropical rainforests in Madagascar into rice fields. Typically, an acre or two of forest is cut, burned, and then planted with rice. After a year or two of production the field is left fallow for four to six years before the process is repeated.

Solution for Problem 2:

Homestead:Under the homestead principle a farmer putting unowned land to use gains ownership over it.

When people cut down trees at an area where no one lives. On the positive side they can farm and make food for the community around them hench not harming any animals or the environment.

Business Plan

When people just take land

without asking it’s pretty much considered illegal. So people have to pay rent on the land that they take, depending on how much trees they cut down or how much land they take. The trees that are cut down in the process are owned by the government and anything upon the land is owned by them. In the process of 5 years of the people living on the land they will pay less rent on the land. Any sort of farming done on the land , the people are required to pay 14% tax of their profit to the government that would go into planting trees.

For every 1 hectares owned is required to pay an amount of 40 USD based on the GDP per capita of Madagascar.

1) Fair trade

a. tree is cut, three are replanted

b. Fair trade label equals high quality product with fair pay

c. More expensive, more profit

2. Concerns

a. People tried stopping it (radio shows),resulted in death threats.

b. Talk to the government ->get in touch with illegal logging companies

c. illegal loggers are fine with anything that still let them cut timber

After two or three such cycles, the soil is exhausted of nutrients and the land is likely colonized by scrub vegetation or alien grasses. On slopes, the new vegetation is often insufficient to anchor soils, making erosion and landslides a problem.

Animals that live in Madagascar:

• Nile Crocodile

• Fossa

• Fanaloka

• Aye-aye

• Blue Coua

• Madagascar Red Owl

• Mantella frog

• Spear nosed snake

... etc

The Food Web

Nile Crocodile

Spear nosed snake

Fanaloka

Mantella frog

Blue Coua

Pill millipede

Tree, plants and leaves.

But all these animals are losing their habitat、Because there is a thing called DEFORESTATION that impacts their ecosystemm

Problem 1:

Logging for timber

Logging for timber is especially

What is Deforestation?

a problem in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar, particularly on the Masoala peninsula. The high value for Malagasy hardwoods (mostly ebony and rosewood, which may fetch $2,000 a ton in international markets) makes illegal logging a significant problem in some protected areas.

Deforestation is when humans remove or clear large areas of forest lands and related ecosystems for non-forest use. These include clearing for farming purposes, ranching and urban use. In these cases, trees are never re-planted.