THE CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION IN ZIMBABWE
Deforestation refers to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or related ecosystems into less bio-diverse ecosystems such as pasture, cropland, or plantations (Kricher, 1997). In Zimbabwe, deforestation seem to be at its high level since there is exessive power cuts and high costs of electricity bills. most people who stay in urban areas especially in high density places experience a lot of power cuts and most of them cannot pay up the high costs since they are unemployed.
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is approximately 10,7% and most of these people are found in these areas mentioned above. since people in urban areas can not pay up the high figures of electricity bills due to poverty they end up destroying the environment by cutting up many trees for firewood and leave the ground bare and prone to soil erosion. in so doing soil erosion can lead to land degradation and lead to hunger. this might be one of the causes of hunger in Zimbabwe as Zimbabwe has been experiencing hunger for the past years.
some would like to blame the government for failing to provide enough electricity for its people. but many questions would like to arise when one thinks about this question. some would like to ask that who to blame the government or the people who are failing their bills? in answering this question one must also consider the factors that are leading people not to pay their bills.
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so what can be done to eradicate this behaviour of people cutting trees,are there any other forms of energy especially in countries like Zimbabwe becoz this problem will prevail
ReplyDeleteactually this problem is just like a cycle in itself. the above general cause of deforestration lacks a lot of information in itself.
ReplyDeleteAs everyone knows for us to have rains it starts from eveporation from a number of factors namely, water sources like dams, reservoir and also from trees.
As tree usually cover most ground in zimbabwe it can be safely said that most moisture comes from them, thus condensation creating clouds and rain. But the cutting of trees or replenish of trees for either fire wood, house making, fences and amongst others are the sole blame for most depleshing of the trees.
So coming back to the question of who to blame, the government or the people is a matter of further consideration as both are principals in the depleting of trees hence environmental degradation.The government can be blamed in the form of legislation, thus failure of the government to legislation a law to protect trees. The government has to put laws of safe cutting of trees and also of planting new trees if you cut a tree.
the other thing as in the factor of providing sufficient energy for cooking in the residential areas like in the form of gas operated stoves and heating. TBC