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Forestry can have a variety of negative impacts on biodiversity in Kenya.Describe in details five negative impacts.

Forestry can have a variety of negative impacts on biodiversity in Kenya.Describe in details five negative impacts.

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Jim
a)Biodiversity loss: Unsustainable forest operations and other pressures on forest resources, such as gathering of fuel-wood, can lead to forest degradation and permanent losses in biodiversity.
b)Climate change: As forest ecosystems are important stores for carbon, their loss has serious implications for climate change. Deforestation and forest degradation are estimated to cause about 20% of annual greenhouse gas emission.
c)Livelihoods of forest dwellers: Forestry can also have negative impacts on indigenous and local communities, and on the livelihoods of other forest dwellers by competing with these communities for access to a finite forest resource base, and by disregarding cultural or spiritual sites and practices.
d)Illegal hunting: Increased hunting continues to be a major threat to forest biodiversity in many countries. The depletion of wildlife is intimately linked to the food security and livelihood of numerous tropical forest-region inhabitants, as many of these forest-dependent people have few alternative sources of protein and income.
e)Illegal settlements: Another side effect of forestry operations, illegal settlements are a threat to forest biodiversity following construction of new forest access roads to previously inaccessible regions.
jim items answered the question on April 12, 2018 at 16:40

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