Forestry - Clear Cutting and Rain Forest Developing

Forestry - Clear Cutting and Rain Forest Developing
A Report Written By AriesLuv at Alberta, CAN


     An issue was brought up long ago about clear cutting and rain forest developing by the citizens of Canada, including First Nations, logging companies, loggers, ecologists, and scientists.  They all have different opinions about this issue, let's just look at some:


(Names will not be provided for privacy reasons)


Ecologists: Clear cutting is not a big deal, and so do replanting.  Nature have it's own solutions about regrowing trees.


First Nation Elders: We should leave the forests the way it is, it's okay to cut two or three trees down for a canoe or wood house, but they should be left along.


Logging Companies: If we stop cutting trees to make all kinds of our daily life supplies, many people will be effected by this decision.




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But, how and why does clear cutting and rain forest developing effects the Earth?


First of all, clear cutting means to cut down ALL the trees in a certain area which might contain habitat of endangered species of animals, areas that have been clear cut takes a long period of time to grown back, too.


Second of all, rain forests are rare, they are homes to thousands of different creatures that can only survive in these forests, if rain forests are ruined, we won't see those creatures ever again.  Trees in rain forests takes thousands of years to grow, if you want to replace a tree in the forest, you need to wait one thousand years.


Most importantly, trees help take away CO2, which is really important.  People releases CO2 EVERY DAY, from driving vehicles, breathing, heat in houses, electrical devices (we get electricity from burning coal in AB)...  If trees were chopped down, than there's going to be one less power to help the Earth from all these pollution from nature.
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     Many citizens have stated their opinions, most of them would like the forests to be left alone, but some are kind of "sitting on the fence".  
     If you want to stop people from clear cutting and developing, you need to take action!  Let the public hear your idea, write letters to the Peter Kent, Minister of Environment!  If enough citizens wrote letters to him and asks to stop clear cutting and rain forest developing, he will do something to change it, to make it better!  Only if YOU speak up!