How are the ‘local’ and ‘tropical’ forests being decimated?
Man is the greatest consumer of forest wealth. Local forests are being decimated in order to get firewood for cooking. The tropical forests are the power-house of evolution. We are losing forests at the rate of an acre and a half in a second. Need for fuel and wood and other building activities has destroyed much of the tropical forests.
What are the earth’s principal biological systems?
What were the important issues that were raised in the First Brandt Commission on ecology and environment?
What is the cause of the collapse of fisheries?
‘Forests precede mankind; deserts follow’. Explain this statement.
