Rainforest Logging facts
While investigating facts about Rainforest Logging Pros And Cons and Rainforest Logging Should Be Banned, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In the 1980s Daintree Rainforest was threatened by logging and other activities but protection as created by having it listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
how does logging affect the rainforest?
Until a few years ago, the government of Guyana had considered allowing logging of the rainforest, but the United Kingdom made efforts in 2008 to save this rainforest, one of only four intact rainforests left in the world.
What is logging in the rainforest?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what effect does logging have on the rainforest. Here are 12 of the best facts about Rainforest Logging Must Be Stopped and Rainforest Logging Statistics I managed to collect.
what is logging in the amazon rainforest?
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Major threats to the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest include logging, plantation development, and the replacement of native tree species with fast growing and more profitable species.
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Aside from logging, other threats to the Pacific Temperate Rainforest include floods, avalanches, and landslides. Forest fires are not common because of the high rainfall and more moderate temperatures throughout the year.
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From the end of World War II the Pacific Temperate Rainforest has been subjected to large scale logging operations. Only 4% of California's redwood trees have remained protected and only 10% of the rainforest in Oregon and Washington still exists.
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Because of excessive logging in the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest many of the old growth tree species are threatened. The eucalyptus and pines are used to replace after being cut and are more useful to the logging companies because they grow more quickly.
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4% of Brazil's rainforests are being destroyed each year because of ranching, logging, and slash-and-burn agricultural practices.
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Half of the Pacific Temperate Rainforest has been lost due to logging operations.
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Swedish Millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14M, for the sole purpose of its preservation.
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Since the Europeans first began to arrive in regions where Valdivian rainforests existed, only 40% of the trees in those regions remain, due to logging and development. 70% of the forests of this type are found in Chile.
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Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation
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Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch was fined US$220 million for illegally logging 230,000 trees in the Amazon Rainforest [additional sources in comments]
