While deforestation appears to be on the decline in some countries, it remains disturbingly high in others-including Brazil and Indonesia-and a grave threat to our world’s most valuable forests still remains. WWF works with governments, companies, communities and other stakeholders to promote certification for responsible forest management practices, combat illegal logging, reform trade policies, protect forested areas, and more.ĭeforestation can happen quickly, such as when a fire sweeps through the landscape or the forest is clear-cut to make way for an oil palm plantation. WWF has been working to protect forests for more than 50 years.
Deforestation in this region is particularly rampant near more populated areas, roads and rivers, but even remote areas have been encroached upon when valuable mahogany, gold, and oil are discovered. For example, in the Amazon around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years, mostly due to forest conversion for cattle ranching. In 2019, the tropics lost close to 30 soccer fields' worth of trees every single minute.ĭeforestation is a particular concern in tropical rain forests because these forests are home to much of the world’s biodiversity. The main cause of deforestation is agriculture (poorly planned infrastructure is emerging as a big threat too) and the main cause of forest degradation is illegal logging. The threats manifest themselves in the form of deforestation and forest degradation.
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Forests also play a critical role in mitigating climate change because they act as a carbon sink-soaking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise be free in the atmosphere and contribute to ongoing changes in climate patterns.īut forests around the world are under threat, jeopardizing these benefits.
Forests are home to more than three-quarters of the world’s life on land. They help people thrive and survive by, for example, purifying water and air and providing people with jobs some 13.2 million people across the world have a job in the forest sector and another 41 million have a job that is related to the sector. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet. I know that’s what people say– you’ll get over it. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free. I just like to sing for people who have lost love. Losing the one you love was really painful especially when it was your fault. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. When you lose someone who is a part of who you are, time will heal the wound, but no amount of time can erase the scar. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. Losing someone hurts but if you truly love them you should let them go, one day you’ll be reunited. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. When speaking of lost love, time may heal all wounds, but there will always be scars. You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next. Jodi Picoult “įor all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those ‘It might have been.’ -John Greenleaf Whittier “ Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. Love is the most beautiful thing to have, hardest thing to earn and most painful thing to lose. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to care. Often times we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. But when those senses weaken another heightens. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.