Deforestation

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Deforestation has created agricultural or pastoral land in Madagascar but it has led to water resource degradation, biodiversity erosion and habitat loss, and soil loss.

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Environmental Impact: The only positive aspect of this method is a slight, quick rise in agricultural production. But there are many negatives. Obviously with less trees there is more pollution or CO2 let into the air but there is one major problem with deforestation in Madagascar which is that it effects the biodiversity which is the wealth of life on earth. A reduction in biodiversity is bad because biodiversity is important for future advances in industry, medicine, agriculture and other fields. They may also suffer with land erosion and river contamination.

Social Impact: The communities may benefit from the rise in agricultural production in the short term after deforestation. But over time, a loss in biodiversity will affect the beauty of the country and will definitely cause a drop in the tourism industry for Madagascar.

Economic Impact: Deforestation has incurred a number of problems. This has led to a poorer standard of living and a decrease in the GDP. Short-term economic gains made by conversion of forest to agriculture, the exploitation of wood products, leads to loss of long term income and long term biological productivity. Also, there has been a decline in timber harvests in Madagascar, which has led to a lower revenue.

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I feel like deforestation is a greater threat in Canada because even though our country is huge we have lost lots of our forests. Even though now there are lots of efforts being done to restore our forests it wont be the same to what it was in the past.