Causes of Deforestation
i. Traditional fuel. People use to cut down trees for the search of wood to use in generating energy. The trees are cut to make charcoal or are whole used to generate heat and light energy.
ii. Traditional Medicines. People still use the ancient herbs to treat and believe these herbs cures certain diseases and thus they clear vegetation by cutting down the trees containing these herbs or they clear other trees to ease accessibility to those herbs, in the process results will be deforested lands.
iii. Insufficient food stuffs. People cut down edible plants to cater for the daily basic needs and wants. This results in cutting down of the trees.
iv. Unemployment. Trees are cut by those undergoing hardships due to the unemployment crisis. They clear vegetation to burn charcoal for sale in order to earn a living.
Possible Solutions
i. Create more job Opportunities. The government should encourage the encroachment of new innovations in order to achieve this.
ii. People should embrace entrepreneurship which will in turn promote the preservation and conservation of natural local resources including trees.
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