Deforestation in Ethiopia - Section II
Today, I went to “Wikipedia.com” and typed in deforestation, went down to the Ethiopia, section and found out a few things. Like this, Deforestation occurs when people clear forests for personal needs such as, for hunting, fuel, or when they need the land to grow and harvest crops. But the main reasons are the shifting agriculture and fuel wood. Ethiopia has the second largest population in Africa and has been hit by famine many times, mostly because there was a depletion of natural resources. The overpopulation of the land caused people to cut down the trees for uses such as firewood and clear the land for crops. If the population keeps growing in Ethiopia, then the deforestation rate will rise, and the country has already lost 98% of it’s forest in the last 50 years. The forests have a very important part in protecting erosion from Ethiopia because the trees would block rain and wind from getting to the soil. They also help to reduce global warm
2007-01-15
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