Problem
Threatened rainforest habitats
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Endangered rainforest habitats Incidence:
Every year 11 million hectares of tropical rain forest are lost through commercial and subsidence pressures, a rate of 1% per year. A general consensus is that 45% of the original tropical rain and monsoon forests have been destroyed.
Tracts of forest in the Caribbean and Central America are being cut down at a rate of 1 to 3.5 percent a year. US ecologist John Terborgh estimates that as many as half of all birds that winter south of the United States go to just five countries—Mexico, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic—where most of the mature forests are now cleared to make way for farms and pastures.
Broader Problems:
Tropical deforestationThreatened forest habitats Narrower Problems:
Threatened tropical humid forest biomeThreatened boreal rain forest habitatsThreatened lowland rain forest habitatsThreatened mountain rain forest habitatsThreatened sun montane rain forest habitatsThreatened subtropical rain forest habitatsThreatened cool temperate rain forest habitatsThreatened warm temperate rain forest habitats References:
World Rainforest Movement: The Endangered Rainforests and the Fight for SurvivalWorld Rainforest Movement: Rainforest Destruction: causes, effect and false solutions Subject(s):
Agriculture, Fisheries → ForestryGeography → Wild
Societal Problems → Vulnerability
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST