Essays on Conservation of Forest
National Forest Policy Bhutan is a mountainous nation situated on the eastern Himalayas of the southern slope. It is a home for 738,000 populace with amazing biodiversity array with the country being one of the world’s ten biodiversity hotspots. Also, over 72 percent of the total land area is under forest cover for all times...
1. Introduction The need to conserve tropical dry forest cannot be over emphasized. According to Portillo-Quintero et al., (2015) such forest support high biodiversity species and exists in high population density regions in less developed world and consequently prone to uncontrolled exploitation. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is a universal approach meant to...
Abstract: Climate change is the biggest threat to nature and humanity in the 21st century. Global warming due to excess carbon emissions is one of the major causes of climate change. Though factors like industrial effluents, automobile exhaust contribute a little to this catastrophe the ‘lion’s share’ for global warming is due to deforestation. Governments...
Background Montane cloud forests are arboreal areas characterized by the frequent presence of clouds and mist (Hamilton et al., 1995). Despite only accounting for 2.5 percent of the total area of worldwide tropical forests, cloud forests represent 34.6% of the world’s total carbon in forest biomass. (Leija-Loredo et al. 2018). This plays a crucial role...
I am more in favour of forest certification rather than against it. Forest certification is a mechanism by which an independent organization issues a written assurance that a product, service or process meets specific requirements (Auld, Gulbrandsen, & McDermott, 2008). This may be followed by issuance of a symbol on products from certified companies, to...
