Effects of Timber Extraction
The major effects of limber extraction on forest and tribal
people include :
1.Poor logging results in a degraded forest.
2.Floods may be intensified by cutting of trees or upstream
watersheds.
3.Loss of biodiversity.
4.Climatic changes such as lower precipitation.
5.New logging roads permit shifting cultivators to gain
access to logged areas and fell the remaining trees.
6. It results in forest fragmentation which promotes loss of
biodiversity because some species of plants and animals require large
continuous areas of similar habitat to survive.
7.Exploitation of tribal people by the contractors.
8.Soil erosion specially on slopes occurs extensively.
9.sedimentation of irrigation systems, floods may be
intensified by cutting of trees on upstream.
10. Scientific research documenting the impact of timber extraction
indicate that it has resulted in fragmentation of the remaining forest, as well
as decrease in biodiversity
11. loss of non-timber products and loss of long-term forest
productivity on the site affect the subsistence economy of the forest dwellers.
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