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Stopping deforestation offers environmental sustainability and also halting climate change impacts, however it could also mean huge loss of income to a significant percentage of the country's population, because Agriculture, which is a major source of deforestation, contributes 24 percent of our GDP, that is, over 70 percent of the population are involved in Agriculture, with a larger percentage depending on forests.

Naturally it is said that over 80 percent of the citizens live below poverty line, and the bulk of the population depend on forest resources to make a living. One of the ways to reverse deforestation is to stop the exploitation of forest resources, which automatically means the population depending on forest resources will be left out, and won't have any other means of livelihood, since no alternative source of livelihood has been provided.

Now, it should be about afforestation not just deforestation, focus should be on plans to replenish the forest resources and manage it well. It is not about trees being cut, but more concerning plans being made to replace.

Trees are meant to be cut, and forest resources are renewable. If you plant some tree species, they have grown to harvestable size in the next 6 years- most trees species grow to maturity in 10 -15 years. So when taking one tree, you can plant two to replace. That should be the thinking, because If you dont cut trees what are you going to cut?

Trees are used for so many things, furniture especially, is there anyone without furniture in their house? Or roofing and other things used in different construction works. By unplanned stopping of forest utilization, many people's livelihood will be taken out.

The expression Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), is a globally accepted tool used by environmental experts to systematically assess the cause-effect relationship between development activities and environmental sustainability as man continues his widespread and almost unabated development of his immediate environment.

Dr. Benard Omoyeni is the Author of the renowned EIA book titled: Principles and Application of Environmental Impact Assessment, a book that is widely circulated among the tertiary institutions of learning in Nigeria and accepted for sales on Amazon.com

Provide good alternative first

omowolewa:
Provide good alternative first

What alternatives are your personal recommendations?

If we stop cutting trees wat do we cut?

What have we done about Plastic bags?

helinues:


What have we done about Plastic bags?

That's another topic on its own, but then, what are you personally doing about plastic bags?