Geography

Study Notes

Deforestation

Level:: AS, A-Level

Board:: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB

Last updated 31 Jul 2018

The removal of long-established woodland is known as deforestation (the opposite – replanting a forest is ‘reforestation’ while establishing a new forest where one has not existed for a significant period of time is ‘afforestation’).

Deforestation can be conducted deliberately – usually for economic reasons – or by natural environmental processes.

If today’s #mangroves were lost, 18 million more people around the world would experience flooding every year. Our natural ecosystems are more important than we realize: https://t.co/tjttibrbAy pic.twitter.com/OEKeqTHTT9
— World Bank Poverty (@WBG_Poverty) July 15, 2018

Increasing the number of trees in #Haiti could multiply benefits for agriculture, livelihoods, and ecosystems—but only if land is managed in an inclusive and sustainable way: https://t.co/DHWK1mbCDJ pic.twitter.com/i8hdKNylyH
— World Bank Poverty (@WBG_Poverty) July 16, 2018