Costa+Rica+-+DBD

=Deforestation and Forest Degregation=

Primary Sources:

 * Deforestation in Costa Rica
 * It's amazing how barren and desolate this once great mountainside has become. Even for the dry season, the trees should not seem so unexcceptably demolished. It's obvious that this has been caused by humans. Men have torn apart the earth solely for financial means.
 * [|Costa Rica Logging]
 * This is one of the many piles of trunks made all the time in Costa Rica. Logging and Deforestation come hand and hand, and it's occurring all over the country. These logs were most likely chopped down for minimal amounts of money, while they will probably be bought for obscene prices and sold expensively in the United States and other various developed countries. The more we buy, the more trees that must be cut down to compensate.

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Artifacts:

 * [|Reversing Deforestation in Costa Rica]
 * The forests that once seemed to cover 99% of the country rapidly fell to 17% by 1983. The forests are disappearing due to the huge amount of deforestation/forest degregation and logging. Today, with only about a quarter of it's original forest remaining, groups in Costa Rica are, "developing programs that connect ecological awareness and sustainable agriculture." It's good that man is taking steps toward repairing the damage that they've done, but how long ago did this become irreversible?
 * [[file:Deforestation Costa Rica.pdf]]
 * Deforestation continues to plague Costa Rica because of the political interest groups, pro- deforestation laws and poor enforcement. Because there is no general law of environmental protection, there's nothing stopping the 2.9% deforestation rate annually. The people and politicians of Costa Rica need to act soon or at least enforce strongly the laws and programs they have in place now.
 * [|Deforestation]
 * Nearly 20,000 acres of wild rainforest are deforested annually in Costa Rica, leaving only 1/4 of the original forest cover. The main reasons behind this include undiscriminating logging companies - who demolish acres of trees and only end up using one or two promising species - to make room for cattle ranching, and because harmful pesticides from local farms kill off the trees. The devastating affects include not only mass species dying, but land erosion, flooding, desertification, sedimentation in rivers, long-term hydroelectric shortages, loss of wildlife diversity, and the obvious demolition of the forests' resources. Deforestation doesn't benefit man as much as one may think, because it ends up hurting the environment first.

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