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DEFORESTATION & WILDFIRESDEFORESTATION & WILDFIRES
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DEFORESTATION
Deforestation is the removal of aforest where the land is thereafter
converted to a non-forest use.
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CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION
- Urban construction
- Agriculture
- Grazing land
- Using for fuel
- Commercial purposes
- Illegal logging
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SCHEME OF DEFORESTATION
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POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES eforestaton ma!es res"ental
#ouses an" fa$tores %oss&le an"
t #el%s trans%ortaton'
Deforestaton $an also mean t#e$onverson of forest lan" to %ro"u$tvelan" for a(r$ultural uses'
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NE)ATIVE CONSEQUENCES
He! "hatabout forests#
$an s%e$es have been
lost or en"an(ere" as a
result of the "estru$ton of
t#er #a&tats'
In the Ama*on% more than
#alf t#e +ater in the
ecosstem s #el" +t#n t#e%lants.
,t#out t#e %lants% the
climate ma &e$ome "rer .
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,IDFIRES
A wildfire is an un$ontrolle" fre in anarea of ve(etaton that occurs in the $ountr.s"e or a +l"erness area'
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CAUSES OF ,IDFIRES
- Arsonsm - represents /0-102 of cases- Ne(l(en$e - represents 34-542 of cases
- Natural $auses- represent less than 42 of
cases- Re(nton of a %revous fre - represents lessthan 52 of cases
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NE)ATIVE CONSEQUENCESNE)ATIVE CONSEQUENCES
-Chemicals% li&e Fluorosurfa$tants%
used to smot#er forest fres% are
also #armful for t#e envronment
because the cause rrevers&le(enet$ mutatons in animals and
"estro. t#e o*one la.er'
- 'orest fires cause the s%rea" of
#armful nse$ts and %arast$
fun('
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DID 7OU 8NO,9 An area of forest e(uivalent to fve foot&all %t$#es
"sa%%ears ever. mnute!$ore than :02 of the world)s s%e$es remain in the Tro%$al
Ranforest. $oreover% up to 300 forest anmal an" %lant s%e$es are lost ever. "a.!
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DID 7OU 8NO,9Deforestation is a ma;or $ontr&utor of $lmate
$#an(e% responsible for up to *+, of (lo&al(reen#ouse (as emssons - more than all cars%truc&s% planes and trains in the world combined.
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DEFORESTATION < FIRES IN )AICIA
In Galicia there is ver. lttle "eforestaton.
Galicia supports 402 of t#e forest fres n S%an' n /st $arch *+/* a fire in As Fragas do Eume destroed=40 #e$tares of the 0ar&% which had been declared a Ste of
Communt. Im%ortan$e. As 'ragas are considered one of thebest e1amples of t#ermo%#l$ Atlant$ forests of 2urope.
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SARA PICOS GÓMEZ
ROI FERNÁNDEZ CANDOCIA
DAVID REINO CANCELA
IRENE VÁZQUEZ AMARELLE
1ºESO B
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