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Deforestation in Costa Rica
Deforestation in Costa Rica
Created by Remi Swan
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What is deforestation?
Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests, including rainforests, in order for the land where the forest was to be used for other things.
What is it?
Where does deforestation happen?
Deforestation happens all around the world. Tropical rainforests are especially targeted.
Where?
Why does deforestation happen?
Why?
Some of the common reasons are:
- To make more land available for housing and urbanization
- To harvest timber to create items such as paper, furniture and homes
- To create ingredients that are highly prized consumer items, such as the oil from palm trees
- To create room for cattle ranching
Why is deforestation a problem?
Deforestation causes loss of habitats for many species, drives climate change, and lets larger amounts of greenhouse gases stay within the atmosphere. Without trees to perpetuate the water cycle, many former forests will quickly become barren deserts.
Why is it a problem?
Loss of Habitat
Eighty percent of land animals and plants live in forests. Millions of species lose their homes because of deforestation. Many of these plants and animals simply cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.
Loss of Habitat
Climate Change
Removing trees from an environment removes portions of a forest's canopy. The canopy blocks sun rays in the day and keeps heat in at night. Without trees, there will be more extreme temperature swings that the plants and animals aren't used to. Fewer forests also means that there will be more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, resulting in more extreme global warming.
What has already happened?
What has happened?
Cutting down forests is having negative impacts on Costa Rica:
Costa Rica is a feeding ground for about 850 bird species. If birds cannot find food, which is usually found in trees, there will be many terrible effects on insect populations and insect-borne diseases throughout the entire continental landmass.
Indigenous People
For indigenous people of Costa Rica, deforestation and "civilization" means that their ways of life will be destroyed. Reforestation gives them a chance to work on a new sustainable way of life.
People
What can be done to fix things?
What can be done?
Solving deforestation is a little more complicated than just planting a few more trees. One big problem is that many forestry companies don't want to help preserve the environments they destroy. All they care about is a steady income. So the first step to stopping deforestation is starting up a conversation about it and keeping that conversation going.
Some Solutions
Solutions
- Forestry companies can work together with organizations that are trying to save forests
- Governments can make laws that keep forests safe
- Organizations and forestry companies can team up with indigenous people to protect the environment
There are many other solutions to this problem that you can find on your own time
Who has tried to help?
The Costa Rican government has been encouraging landowners to protect their land. The government offers cash or grants to landowners that team up with the Ministry of Environment. By doing this, some landowners can enter into contracts of sustainability management. However, sustainable management allows the landowners to extract only a certain number of trees from the forest and not ceases illegal deforestation.
What has been done?
What has this done?
Costa Rica went from being 70% covered with forests to being 20% covered with forests between the 1950s and 1980s. However, thanks to reforestation efforts, the country is about 50% covered today.
What has this done?
Citation
Citation
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“How the Costa Rican Government Helps Promote Forest Reforestation.” Go Visit Costa Rica, www.govisitcostarica.com/travelInfo/government-programs/government-helps-promote-reforestation.asp.
“How Costa Rica’s Eco-Economy Saved Its Forests.” Allianz, www.allianz.com/en/about_us/open-knowledge/topics/environment/articles/150320-how-costa-ricas-eco-economy-saved-its-forests.html/.
“Deforestation and Its Effect on the Planet.” National Geographic, 25 July 2017, www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation/?beta=true.
“Rainforest Deforestation.” Effects of Deforestation Community Carbon Trees, www.communitycarbontrees.org/rainforest-deforestation#Deforestation-Effects.