Nicaragua: forest protection and deforestation

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Nicaragua: forest protection and deforestation

Original language description

Deforestation and forest fragmentation are belong to the main components of global change and both contribute to the rapid decline of the tropical forest area with significant impact for the functioning of ecosystems and the protection of biodiversity. Deforestation is directly linked to species extinction, loss of ekosystém functions, increased CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases, and changes in the structure and quality of aquatic ecosystem biotopes. Deforestation not only reduces the forest area but also changes the landscape configuration. Fragmentation increases the isolation of habitats and increases the edge effect. One of the main environmental problems of Nicaragua at this time is deforestation and fragmentation of forest stands. This problem is caused by an uncontrollable expansion of extensive livestock farming, unsustainable agriculture and population growth. The reason is that the Nicaraguan economy is directly dependent on agriculture and cattle farming. Another reason is the impact of climate change, when the entire Central American region is affected by a 3-year period of extreme drought caused by the climate phenomenon of El Niño. Last but not least, the share of illegal logging is also contributing to deforestation. Between 1990 and 2000, Nicaragua lost an average of 99,900 hectares of forest per year, which stand for a loss of 1,53% per year. Overall, between 1990 and 2005, Nicaragua lost 20.6% of the forest area or around 1 349 000 hectares.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Public recreation and landscape protection – with nature hand in hand!: Conference proceeding

ISBN

978-80-7509-550-3

ISSN

2336-6311

e-ISSN

2336-632X

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

262-266

Publisher name

Mendelova univerzita v Brně

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Křtiny

Event date

May 2, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000434239900043