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The rainforest, which Benin City is situated in, helped in the development of the city because of its vast resources – fish from rivers and creeks, animals to hunt, leaves for roofing, plants for medicine, ivory for carving and trading, and wood for boat building – that could be exploited.
The rainforest provides much of the rainfall in Brazil, even in areas far from it. Deforestation increased the impacts of the droughts of 2005, 2010, and 2015–2016. [86] [87] The rainforest, by inducing rainfall and helping with water storage, provides freshwater to the rivers that give water to Brazil and other countries. [88] [89]
GCSE Bitesize was launched in January 1998, covering seven subjects. For each subject, a one- or two-hour long TV programme would be broadcast overnight in the BBC Learning Zone block, and supporting material was available in books and on the BBC website. At the time, only around 9% of UK households had access to the internet at home.
Home to much of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's tropical primary (old-growth) forest loss greatly exceeds that of other countries. [62] Overall, 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been "transformed" (deforested) and another 6% has been "highly degraded", causing Amazon Watch to warn that the Amazonia is in the midst of a tipping point crisis. [63]
With annual forest loss of 0.3% during the 2000s, [5] the region had the lowest deforestation rate of any major tropical forest zone. [6] From 2015 to 2019, the rate of deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo doubled. [7] In 2021, deforestation of the Congolese rainforest increased by 5%. [8]
[6] In 2021, The Wildlife Trusts Wales campaigned that Wales needs a "National Rainforest Strategy". [17] By 2023, the National Trust was operating a tree nursery in Snowdonia of 23,471 hectares (58,000 acres) to grow trees that can be then distributed to select locations in the area to maintain the health of local woodlands.
Between 1990 and 2010, Malaysia lost an estimated 8.6% of its forest cover, or around 1,920,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres). [1] Logging and land clearing has particularly been driven by the palm oil sector. World Bank policies in the 1970s encouraged palm oil expansion and the IMF’s bailout package, following the 1998 economic crisis ...
Logging activities has now increased from initially low volume harvests of floodplains to much higher rates that remove around 25 million cubic metres (880 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of wood from the forest each year. The ecological, social, and economic impacts drive a better understanding of efficient forest management techniques and deforestation.