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Deforestation is now mainly known as one of the huge causes of global warming.

“Tropical forests are the elephant in the living room of climate change,” said Andrew Mitchell, the head of the GCP. Scientists predict that ‘deforestation is equivalent to the carbon footprint of eight million people flying to New York.’

The rainforests of the Amazon, the Congo basin and Indonesia are thought of as the lungs of the planet. The destruction of those forests will only add up to a major amount of the Co2 released into the atmosphere.

Indonesia became the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases recently. Forest fires and deforestation both add up to “the carbon dioxide storage” The GCP’s report concludes: “If we lose forests, we lose the fight against climate change.”

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Poverty and Deforestation
About 800 million people living near or in tropical rainforests are dependent on the trees for supplies and natural resources.

Deforestation is caused by both the rich and the poor for high and low gains. For example in Madagascar, poor people clear forests for short-term gains--as little as $39 a hectare a year, for only a few years. In Indonesia or Cameroon, households can create cocoa farms worth $1500 or more.

In the Brazilian Amazon part of the world, 80 percent of deforestation, clear cutting is being used more often. Forests can be both a geographic poverty trap as well as a route out of poverty. Places with high forest cover often have low population densities but high poverty rates. People living in forests, are often unable to use the trees as part of their own natural resources. Sometimes this happens when governments or wealthy interests claim forests and restrict access. In other cases, forests belong to nobody. In Asia, tens of millions of people live in ‘forests without trees’—state forest lands where trees have been removed.

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