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Deforestation: Logging
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The highest rates of deforestation are not necessarily associated with the highest population densities. In Equateur Province, for example north of Lisala, the rates and extent of deforestation are almost two times higher than those found north of Bumba, even though population density is two times lower in the Lisala. This may indicate errors within the population dataset or suggest that deforestation is fueled primarily by other factors, such as economic activity.
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Often, several deforestation agents work sequentially. Road development encourages timber exploitation, which opens the forest for agricultural settlement and fuelwood salvaging. About half of all logged tropical forests are eventually used for farming.
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[A] lot of the deforestation occurs for other reasons. Banana companies cut down rain forests to plant bananas. They don't do this to feed their families, but to make money, and they change the land a lot. Banana farms and other "farm-factories" in the tropics cause a lot of deforestation and the rain forest has a very difficult time growing back. One of the best things you can do for the rain forest is to buy organic bananas, which come from farms that are nicer to the rain forest.
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Access to technology may either enhance or diminish deforestation. The availability of technologies that allow “industrial-scale” agriculture can spur rapid forest clearing, while inefficient technology in the logging industry increases collateral damage in surrounding forests, making subsequent deforestation more likely. Underlying factors are rarely isolated; instead, multiple global and local factors exert synergistic influences on tropical deforestation in different geographic locations.
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In the same way, the evolution of the deforestation rates in the Indigenous Territories showed a decrease, passing from of 441 square kilometres, in 2005, to 190 square kilometres, in 2006. In the nestings... km² for 2.054 had fall in the deforested area of 4.406 km².
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Characterizing deforestation at a given time and place involves as a rule determining with some certainty what the more or less long-term future of the deforested area will be. Can natural or artificial reforestation develop, or on the contrary, is the clearing or clearfelling the occasion or the first stage in the conversion of a forest area into one involving a non forest use? There is no deforestation if the clearfelling is done on an area that is meant to be maintained as a forest (as in the case of "temporarily unstocked" forests); deforestation on the other hand does exist - and this is actually the point of view of forest management - when the forest in question is cleared in order to be cultivated or abandoned for a long time, and if its regeneration cannot take place before several decades have passed.
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