Friday, March 29, 2024

How Forests Contribute To The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS).

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By Sustainable Development Organization

Have you ever asked yourself why the hullabaloo about forests?  It is crucial that you do so.  This is because forests have been undervalued in the effort to attain Sustainable Development goals (SDG’s). 

To some extent less treasured are the mostly imperceptible ways that forest-based ecosystem services add value to developmental objectives, and how deforestation can undermine their realization. 

Although efforts have been made to mobilize the importance of forests as an approach out of poverty for both rural and urban communities, not enough attention has been given to deforestation as a negative pathway to poverty. Alteration of forests to other land uses eliminates income from wild products such as honey, mushrooms, and leaves landscapes less resilient to landslides, floods and other natural disasters that can damage infrastructure (SDG 11) and set back income growth for years (SDG 1). Deforestation has negative impacts on agricultural productivity which is a key weapon in the fight to end hunger (SDG 2). Forest-based birds and bees provide essential pollination and pest control within the eco-system. Forested watersheds provide water for irrigation, and help maintain the water habitat for the inland fisheries that is a source of food supply for millions. Loss of tree cover also affects the water cycle, threatening to dry up rivers and water vapor from forest transpiration which fall as rain on agricultural fields (SDG 6). Read more>>

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