rainforest soil erosion
We take trees of course, but more than a source of products or carbon storage areas
Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Cross
The conflict over what is best for the environment and the planet is the responsibility of us all, not just commercial interests.
Commercial organizations available to meet the demands of their goods and services, although it is true that, to survive and grow have to "create" new demands for new products.
No longer can we ignore the effects continued growth are having on the Earth's atmosphere and environment and a major cause for concern is the loss of forests.
Trees and forests are important for a variety that can not exist but also help clean the air. Lush mature tree produces as much oxygen in a season of 10 people inhale in a year and trees intercepting airborne particles, reducing heat, and absorption of pollutants like carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Trees remove this type of air pollution by lowering air temperature, through respiration and by retaining particulates. Blockade also carbon dioxide, identified as a cause of global warming. To produce its food, a tree absorbs and locks the carbon dioxide in the wood, roots and leaves. A forest is a carbon storage area and carbon can block occurs.
By either store harmful pollutants or convert them to less harmful forms trees also help clean the soil. They also help combat soil erosion. Its roots bind the soil and their leaves break the force of wind and rain on the ground, but also act as windbreaks, which can also reduce the effect of drought on soil and vegetation behind the windbreak and help keep precious topsoil We have learned to use the 1% of these incredible plants. This could be a rich source for biopesticides developers currently working to produce less harmful low agricultural chemical products such as biofungicides, biopesticides and performance enhancers, to replace the previous generation of chemical-based products forest destruction in places like the Amazon basin and Indonesia seems crazy.
But there are so many tree-based products that give for granted and can not imagine life without – from building materials, furniture, paper, palm oil or thay produce fruits and seeds.
While there are many organizations fighting to protect tropical forests rapid decline of the world, and the role of Europe is now largely come to expel the Catholic missionaries Paul McAuley, which campaigns on behalf of the Indians of the Amazon rainforest and its local environment.
Indonesia is the huge profits can increase tree corn yield, besides having an impact on climate change.
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) recently highlighted some of recent research, designed to increase maize production in Africa up to four times by planting trees that act as fertilizers organic.
The tree that is the secret to a higher yield of corn, Faidherbia, is of special nitrogen-fixing property and an unusual habit met a "phrenology reverse the blade." Unlike other trees, Faidherbia loses its leaves and is inactivated during the early rainy season.
Its leaves grow again only in the dry season, making it compatible with food crops, and that does not compete with them for water, nutrients or light.
According with Agroforestry Centre, Malawi farmers in Malawi, say it is like "fertilizer factory in the field because it takes nitrogen from the air, is fixed in the leaves and subsequently incorporated into the soil. In areas where tree canopy is established maize yields increased by 280 percent compared with the area outside the pavilion.
In Zambia, too, unfertilized maize yields near Faidherbia trees averaged 4.1 tons per hectare, compared with about 1.3 tons, but beyond the treetops. Clearly there are more trees than most of us imagine.
About the Author
Aside from the products they produce trees they also protect soil quality and forest plants are the source of many modern medicines and, journalist
Ali Withers
argues, could be a useful resource for
Biopesticides Developers
. Forests, particularly rainforests, are crucial to the planet’s survival and to reducing global warming, but they’re valuable for so much more.
Global welfare: Rooted in the World's Forests This piece originally appeared in the Washington Post supplement the Environmental Leadership April 20, 2011, and published in is with your permission. This year, 2011 has been declared the International Year of Forests, and while there are a few bright spots, forests today face a number of challenges.
