How to stop degradation of forests and how to protect trees ?

Question

EVERY NATION IS SUFFERING FROM THE GLOBAL WARNINGS, GREEN HOUSE AFFECTS ETC. THE DEGRADATION OF THE FOREST FOR THE PURPOSE OF CULTIVATION, HOUSES AND INDUSTRIES IS CAUSING A LOT OF INTERLINKED PROBLEMS WITH THE SAID MENACES. APART FROM THE FOREST DEPARTMENTS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES EVERY BODY HAS TO TAKE APPROPRIATE STEPS. BUT IN WHICH BETTER WAY ?

Answer 1

The problem is that small communities and villages need to develop land in order to farm or they will all starve and die. The UN is reluctant to punish people for just trying to survive. Aid sent to these poor communities is often seized by warlords and so the people have nothing. Overpopulation contributes to the destruction of natural habitats because the farmers need more children to get more of the work done to make it easier on themselves and the rest of their families. These new children can also return the favor and support them when they are too old to work so they do not starve when they are old. Currently there is no known good solution known to experts that works and is being used. Suggested solutions include empowering women and contraception, but these do not work.

Answer 2

dont cut the trees, grow more trees. protect village places from concrete. forests should not be degraded.

Answer 3

There is probably not much we can do, however, money talks. If people STOP buying wood and buy renewable building materials (such as bamboo) instead, then that would be an excellent start. Other than that, everyone plant some trees! And use recycled paper.

Answer 4

Here is a big question before me! If it would be in my hand I would pass a law according to which I would hang all people cutting trees or maybe life imprisonment.But why not?When someone kills a human we give that punishment,and afterall trees are as important as we are but more if I am not wrong.But to be in favour of the government's problems,I think they should atleast be given half a year's imprisonment.But as we say first catch them then only you can give punishment.So keep a tight security at every place where atleast one tree is there.What did you say? Aren't there enough people in our country ready to work for the betterment of it? Atleast in our country such people are there, I don't know about other coutries,ok.

Answer 5

I hope my knowledge about the following programs can do something:
(A) SOCIAL FORESTRY
This programme involves raising of trees for firewood, fodder, agricultural implements and fruits on common public lands,roads and rail sides,etc.,for the benefit of rural community.
(B) AGRO FORESTRY
This programme aims at surviving an ancient practice of using the same land for farming and forestry.Woody species are grown in combination with herbaceous crops,either at the same time or in time sequence.
(C) URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAMME
It is aimed at growing ornamental fruits in urban areas. It has great aesthetic value for the citizens.

Answer 6

Educate, educate, educate !!!!

Answer 7

That is a good question on a very important issue which needs immediate attention and action from all of us. Our forests are being cut, green cover is going down and water and air pollution is going up and this is going to be very harmful for all of us and especially for the comming generations.

The first and foremost requirement is certainly to stop cutting trees and stop and remove all forest encroachments. If we leave the forests undisturbed they will automatically and naturally regenerate. But, the biotic pressure on the forests is very high and even today our forest dwellers are dependent on forest produces be it minor once or major. They cut trees, collect diffrent items from forests and this is to sell them for their livelihood. So the next most important task is certainly to give them better facilities, education and resettle them outside forests along with providing them with better livelihood possibilities and services. But, our government is not at all interested in this instead they are distributing all encroched land to present encroachers and this is going to be a deadly move. Our politicians need votes and this is the guiding factor. People are not aware enough to understand this and they will be very happy with the land they get whereas this will not be of much use in the long run since the problems of education, medical facilities and like will continue for next decade or two and this will create further problems.

We need to make the people aware about importance of conservation and saving trees which is not a very difficult thing to do since these things are there in our culture and to a better extent in the tribal cultures. But, with passage of time we have become more materialistic and are forgetting everything and doing just the opposite. So reviving our culture which says to save everything, not to hurt and even of saving every tree will be very helpful.

So come ahead, educate people make them aware of importance of trees, revive their positive cultures and SAVE OUR MOTHER EARTH. We are busy but taking out a few hours every month will be good enough and that also to serve our mother earth.

Answer 8

Long-term gains can be obtained by managing forest lands sustainable to maintain both forest cover and provide a biodegradable renewable resource. Forests are also important stores of organic carbon, and forests can extract carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air, thus contributing to biosphere stability and probably relevant to the greenhouse effect. Forests are also valued for their aesthetic beauty and as a cultural resource and tourist attraction.

The effects of human related deforestation can be mitigated through environmentally sustainable practices that reduce permanent destruction of forests or even act to preserve and rehabilitate disrupted forestland (see Reforestation and Treeplanting).

New methods are being developed to farm more food crops on less farm land, such as high-yield hybrid crops, greenhouse, autonomous building gardens, and hydroponics. The reduced farm land is then dependent on massive chemical inputs to maintain necessary yields. In cyclic agriculture, cattle are grazed on farm land that is resting and rejuvenating. Cyclic agriculture actually increases the fertility of the soil. Selective over farming can also increase the nutrients by releasing such nutrients from the previously inert subsoil. The constant release of nutrients from the constant exposure of subsoil by slow and gentle erosion is a process that has been ongoing for billions of years.

Efforts to stop or slow deforestation have been attempted for many centuries because it has long been known that deforestation can cause environmental damage sufficient in some cases to cause societies to collapse. In Tonga, paramount rulers developed policies designed to prevent conflicts between short-term gains from converting forest to farmland and long-term problems forest loss would cause[10], whilst during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Tokugawa Japan[11] the shoguns developed a highly sophisticated system of long-term planning to stop and even reverse deforestation of the preceding centuries through substituting timber by other products and more efficient use of land that had been farmed for many centuries. In sixteenth century Germany landowners also developed silviculture to deal with the problem of deforestation. However, these policies tend to be limited to environments with good rainfall, no dry season and very young soils (through volcanism or glaciation). This is because on older and less fertile soils trees grow too slowly for silviculture to be economic, whilst in areas with a strong dry season there is always a risk of forest fires destroying a tree crop before it matures.