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Ten countries of the world with the worst Deforestation rate of primary

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Download scientific diagram | Ten countries of the world with the worst Deforestation rate of primary forests (2000-2005). Source: Rhett, 2005 Table 7: Important agents of deforestation, forest degradation and fragmentation. Agents Links to deforestation, degradation and fragmentation Slash-and-burn farmers  Clears forest to grow subsistence and cash crops Commercial farmers  Clears the forest to plant commercial cash crops, sometimes displace slashand-burn farmers who then move to a new forest land Cattle ranchers  Clear the forest to plant pasture, sometimes displace slash-and-burn farmers who then move to a new forest land Livestock herders  Intensification of herding activities can lead to deforestation Loggers  Remove commercial timber, logging roads provide access to other land users commercial tree planters  Clear mostly forest fallow or previously logged forests to establish plantations to supply fibre to the pulp and paper industry firewood collectors  Intensification of firewood collection can lead to deforestation mining and petroleum industrialists  Roads and seismic lines provide access to other land users, localized deforestation related to their operations land settlement planners  Relocation of people into forested areas as well as settlement projects displacing local people who then move to the forest infrastructure developers  New access for other land users from road and highway construction through forested areas, flooding by hydroelectric dams. Source: Adapted from FAO, 2007 from publication: Impacts of Human-induced Deforestation, Forest Degradation and Fragmentation on Food Security | Abstract: Forest is an extensive area composing of dense and tall species of trees and other biota in symbiotic relationships. Forests exist in all regions of the world capable of sustaining tree growth at altitudes up to the tree line, where the environment is not | Deforestation, Food Supply and Food Security | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.