Forests in many countries are being logged. However, there are two different way to log forest causing different aftereffects. One is a healthy national logging policy. It is to control the quantity of trees been logged, meanwhile plant the same quantity of trees in order to keep the forest coverage of the whole nation. The other one is an unhealthy national logging policy. It is uncontrollable logging while not enough or even no tree planting.
A healthy national logging policy will keep a high forest coverage of a nation, so a lot of nature disaster which caused by lack of forest coverage such as mud-rock flow and flood will not happen. An unhealthy national logging policy will cause lower forest coverage so there is a high possibility that nature disaster could happen. For example, Japan has the highest forest coverage in the world which is 64%; China only has 16.55% forest coverage, even lower than global average 22%. That’s why recently a lot of nature disasters happened in China.
A healthy national logging policy will keep a healthy climate. For example, forest can absorb a lot of exhaust gas like CO2 (carbon dioxide) and produce oxygen, so the effect of pollution will be minimized. It also can reduce the direct radiation from the sun and keep the temperature in a certain range. An unhealthy national logging policy will destroy the forest so the pollutant will directly go to the air and cause tremendous climate change, such as storm. A very good example is the weather in desert is extreme hot in day time and extreme cold in night time because of no forest.
In conclusion, we should log the forest under a healthy national logging policy which can keep high forest coverage of a nation and keep a healthy climate. That’s the only way to make our life better and better.
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Another things to concern of about the policy is whether it is being abide by the people. My country do have healthy national logging policy, but with all the corruption in the government body, policy is losing their power to do their main purpose.
Plants plays a really important role in reducing global warming. So we must apply the healthy national logging policy to save our forest....
In Malaysia, healthy natinal logging policy is starting few years ago. The outcome that we see is still not efficient because there are still alots of people logging tree illegally. If we realy want to stop to destroy our homeland, what realy important is realy ourself and not only government itself.
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