Causes of Climate Change

Illegal Logging
• Illegal logging is the harvesting, processing, transporting, buying or
selling of timber in contravention of national and international laws. It
has a devastating impact on some of the world's most valuable
remaining forests, and on the people who live in them and rely on the
resources that forests provide.
Effects of Illegal Logging
• Environmental impacts include the loss or degradation of forests, as
illegal logging tends to be associated with poor forest management.
This can result in the loss of habitats and biodiversity. For example,
illegal logging is threatening the survival of some of the world’s most
endangered primates ,including orangutans in Indonesia and the
Siberian tiger. Deforestation and forest degradation also has
implications for climate change, as forests have a crucial role in both
mitigating against and adapting to climate change. Illegal logging in
nine forest producer countries is estimated to have released 190
million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2013.