From English deforestation. The translation and meaning according to the dictionary of the Royal Academy is "to strip a land of forest plants ". The word Deforestation is what we commonly call felling or cutting of trees, this criminal act is unfortunately caused by human beings. The main cause of this human action towards nature is the timber industry, paper manufacturers and those engaged in agricultural and livestock activities.
Here in Venezuela it can be said that another of the factors causing deforestation is poverty and the lack of housing policies that have led people to invade the mountains and cut down the trees to make their homes without thinking about the damage they are facing. causing.
Among the consequences of deforestation we can name:
We must become aware of this issue since it affects us directly, it depends on us whether this ecocide that is done to our trees increases or decreases among some proposals would be to encourage the planting of trees by the organisms in charge of the conservation environment, include communities and schools, supervise those companies that manufacture furniture and paper so that for every 100 trees they cut, they plant 200.
By conserving forests and using them more rationally, not destroying the most important species and letting them regenerate with their own seeds.
Deforestation presents us with innumerable problems as well as solutions, it is up to us to try to implement these solutions as quickly as possible and thus avoid further loss of trees and resources that years ago we thought would not be exhausted and that unfortunately we realize that the reality is other.
