They forgot to mention that how many hectares of forest they will destroy by 2010
(KPL) The Lao government is planning to reforest two million hectares of vacant land in the country to increase the land area covered by forest and it is to make up for decrease in the forest cover of the country from 47 per cent in 1998 to 38 per cent in 2008.
The Department of Forest of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry disclosed this week that it would be transplanting 32 million seedlings on vacant throughout the country.
Initially, 30,000 hectares of land would be reforested with various kinds of natural trees on Arbor Day, 2009.
Hard wood trees are suffering from rapid depletion because they fetch high prices in the domestic and foreign markets and if left unchecked they might become extinct and so there is a need to replace them.
Mr Thongphath Vongmany, Standing Director of the Department of Forestry said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is planning to increase the forest cover by adding an additional six million hectares by 2020 but on a short term basis it will be replanting trees on two million hectares by 201
It is good that they do this but it is not the same. I give you example.
Let me burn your house down with everything precious inside. Everything inside burn. Now I am going to build you the same exact house but I can not do anything about the precious items that was inside the house. Got the point?
When all the tree is gone, the forest die, the plants die, the insects and animal die.
You plant a tree it doesn't guarantee the animal, plants, and insect will comeback. The bio-diversity is gone forever.
Anonymous wrote:It is good that they do this but it is not the same. I give you example.
Let me burn your house down with everything precious inside. Everything inside burn. Now I am going to build you the same exact house but I can not do anything about the precious items that was inside the house. Got the point?
When all the tree is gone, the forest die, the plants die, the insects and animal die.
You plant a tree it doesn't guarantee the animal, plants, and insect will comeback. The bio-diversity is gone forever.
Excellent analogy!
& before the new trees are planted & become fully grown - precious fertile topsoil will be eroded by rain - the land will become less fertile - the rivers will become more muddy - dams become silted up & blocked - more mudslides will block roads & kill people & bury houses & damage property (just like in Philippines)
