Deforestation in Thailand: Deforestation in Thailand

Deforestation in Thailand: Deforestation in Thailand: What is deforestation?

Deforestation in Thailand

Deforestation in Thailand

What is deforestation?

Deforestation is happen when people clear the forest illegal by cut down a tree, burn, and drive out all wild animals for some purposes for example farming, building dam, and wood product and never re-planted.

This article discusses about retribution, calamities, damage and lost that happen when deforestation in Thailand. Calamities can come in many kinds and each of them has different effect to our world, such as immerses flooding, landslide, global warming,and lost of wild animals. These four retributions are the most calamities that happen often in Thailand and most of the world in different climate.

Thailand forest information and data

State of forest in Thailand

Thailand in 1945 and 1975 used to be the country that has 60% of land that covered by forest and called one of the most countries that have perfectly forest in Asia, but in 11 years later Thailand lost 28% of all remaining forest. A reason that Thailand lost many forests because, greed and selfish from capitalist and some group of people that think only profit but don’t care about what will happen next. 

Power and Money

King says "Greed is a factor in floods"

Thai government tries to manage and write a law of concession to control the damage before it too late, but it doesn't work with powerful and rich people. Powerful and rich people use money to hire villagers that live near a forest to cut the tree down and burn it all. Villagers know that it was illegal logging but, they still do it because of the money that capitalist will give them. Deforestation continue happen together with agricultural expansion, recent economic and requirements for a product that made from wood until next generation of the forest can’t catch up with. Today Thailand suffers from a retribution that happen such as immerse flooding, air pollution, and conflagration.

Deforestation cursing immerse flooding in Thailand

Thailand flooding Sept. 2011

Deforestation is the main reason of many calamities that happen in Thailand, immerse flooding is one of it. Immerse flooding is happen when the ground and few of tree unable to absorb water that come from heavy rain. It means tons of water that drop from the sky will flow from high ground to low area in extremely fast. Damage of the water will wipe out everything on it way and cursing extremely damage to land also curse flooding after it. Only ground can’t absorb all water but, it need help from forest to absorb and decrease water speed.

Example of immerse flooding that happen because of deforestation is happen in November 22, 1988 at Nakhon Si Thammarat province. Water flows with landslide from top of the mountain with high speed without trees that will help absorb and decrease the speed. Water carries thousand of logs that come from deforestation to all villages, farms, and domestic animal that stay at foothill. In that calamities hundreds of people die, twenty farms are destroy everything cost more than 1000 million baths. People call that area “sea of logs”.

Landslide, curse from deforestation

Landslide in Thailand

Landslide also is calamity that cost a lot of damages in widespread areas and it will bury every life under it. Landslide happen when mass movement of ground, sand, and rock under the mountain that lost all the trees from deforestation and slide itself down to foothill. Damages of landslide are twice stronger than immerse flooding especially in Thailand that most of land areas are mountain and a lot of deforestation because most of it is solid and strong for example, rock and clod of earth.

In Thailand also have landslide at many area, for example in Uttaradit Province. In 2006 on Maephun, that is one from many places that have high rate of deforestation in Thailand. Ground shake a giant rock that bigger than a bus roll with clod of earth flow to the foothill with speed more than 800 km in spread area destroy everything that block they way and bury everything and life under it in few hours.

Global warming in Thailand

Dr. Smith Thammasaroch

Global warming is another serious problem that happening in our world. Thailand also suffer from this problem because of a forestland that serve as lung of the earth is destroy by human and replace by population size and construction. Global warming will increase heat and especially Thailand had hit by extremely heat  which recorded maximum temperature is 43°C in northern province and it could be rise further. Global warming situation is very serious situation in this time because it damage everything on earth for example crops, domestic animal, aquatic animals, and it will be chain reaction until we have no place to live

Dr. Smith Thammasaroch, the chairperson of the Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning, says that "Global warming will longer threat to Thailand and all humanity if we keep destroy the nature without concern what will happen in the future" 

Lost of wildlife.

End danger animal in Thailand

Another problem that Thailand suffers from deforestation is lost of wild animals. While people but the forest they will not care what will happen to all animals in the forest they just got paid and do what they have to do. Animals that lost them shelter, hunting ground, and reproduce area will be hunt down or chase away. Bad luck for end danger animal, because they will be kill every time they show up. Some animal need really good environment to reproduce and most of them are having name in the list of end danger animals in Thailand. If we keep deforestation continue happen in Thailand our next generation will see animal only in the picture and video.  

Thailand use to be a country that cover with forest, much kind of wild animals and don’t often attack by natural disasters, but now a day Thailand suffer a lot of danger disaster that come from our own hands by deforestation. Everybody knows what we have to pay after we cut down all the trees without control. Every time that calamity happen many things lost and some of it is unable to get back, so we have to increase our responsibility to our body and mind that we have to prevent those calamities from Thailand by stop deforestation before everything is too late.

Deforestation problem in Thailand

 

Endanger Species in Thailand