Deforestation in the Philippines

1) Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land thereafter is converted to a non-forest use. Examples include conversion of forestland to farmland or urban areas. Deforestation in the Philippines is a major issue. 

2) In the Philippines deforestation is a major issue, from the 20th century to know the forest cover for dropped from 70% to 20% which is a very big decrease. The environmental impact on animals is a huge one as well as for 46 species have become endangered and 4 species have gone extinct. There is only 3.2% of a rainforest has been left. The government regularly granted logging concessions of less than ten years. Since it takes 30–35 years for a second-growth forest to mature, loggers had no intention to replant trees,  40 percent of the harvestable lumber never left the forests because they were damaged in the logging process, rotted or are burned in place. The unsurprising result of these and related policies is that out of 17 million hectares of closed forests that flourished early in the century only 1.2 million remain today.

3) I think that deforestation is a bigger threat in my country then in Canada because although it may not be as big as Canada the Philippines have mostly islands that too tropical rainforests so if trees are being cut down then sooner or later there will be no more left and , and the plants animals and people will be at risk.