Deforestation in Costa Rica

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The major problem in Costa Rice is deforestation

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that between 1973-1989, the forests in Costa Rica were being lost at an average rate of 2.3% annually

In remote areas of some of the National Parks illegal logging has taken place as there isnt enough money to hire park guards to enforce the law in the park

Deforestation has led to both direct and indirect severe environmental problem. The worst of these problems is soil erosion.

Deforestation is happening at such a fast rate that by the first decades of the 21st century most of Costa Ricas (and the worlds) rainforests will have disappeared

Deforestation will not only result in the loss of the rainforest but also countless extinctions

Deforestation not leads to extinction but it also to the loss of the genetic diversity which could help a certain species to adapt to a changing world

It is undeniably true that the rainforest provides resources in the way of timber, pasture and possible mineral wealth but this is a short-sighted view. Efforts are not underway to show the economic value of the standing rainforest is greater than the wealth from deforestation

One important way to make the tropical forest an economically productive resource without cutting it down is to protect it in national parks, preserve it and also make it accessbile to visitors

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