1. Social Problems
DEFORESTATION

2. Deforestation
o-the removal of
a forest or stand
of trees where the
land is thereafter
converted to a
non-forest use.
o-cutting down
trees in forests
and rainforests.

3. Some causes of Deforestation
Illegal logging Charcoal making
 This is a problem which  This is not being paid
the government cannot attention, but sometimes
succeed to solve. If this this is worse than illegal
cannot be stopped, our logging. Here, even the
forests will be denuded. small trees cut down and
burned.

4. Some causes of Deforestation
Kaingin System Other causes
 Population growth
 Hillsides/ mountainsides
are cleared thoroughly.  Globalization

5. Other Causes
Urban Construction Commercial Purposes
- The cutting down of - Some of the other
trees for lumber that is causes of deforestation
used for building are: clearing forests for
materials, furniture, oil and mining
and paper products
have a major impact on exploitation, to make
forest life. Forests are highways and roads,
cleared to slash and burn farming
accommodate techniques, wildfires,
expanding urban areas. and acid rain.

6. TOP 10
MOST
ENDANGERED
FORESTS
( 2011)

7. Endangered forests Remaining Notes
habitat
Top 10 most Endangered wetlands, mangrove forests. Myanmar (Burma),
Indo- Burma 5% Rivers, floodplain Forests in 2011
Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, India.
New -Caledonia 5% ------
Philippines 7% Forests over the entire country including
7,100 islands.
Sundaland 7% Western half of the Indo-Malayan archipelago including
southern Borneo and Sumatra.
Atlantic Forest 8% Forests along Brazil's Atlantic coast, extends to parts of
Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
Mointains of southwest 8% -----
China
Coastal forest of Eastern 10% Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia
Africa
California Floristic 10% -----
Province
Madagascar & Indian 10% Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, Comoros
Ocean Islands
Eastern Afromontane 11% Forests scattered along the eastern edge of Africa, from
Saudi Arabia in the north to Zimbabwe in the south.

8. Negative Effects of Deforestation
Flash floods
- Occur when there are
heavy rains, resulting in
the destruction of the
crops and loss of lives.

9. Cagayan De Oro Leyte

10. Illigan Quezon

11. Landslides- a wide range of ground movement
Northern Samar Southern Mindanao

12. A people without children would face a
hopeless future; a country without trees is
almost as helpless.
-Theodore Roosevelt
- J Ann Sangcay 