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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Deforestation and the Islamic Stewardship Ethic Causes of Forest Loss ======================== It is possible to develop approaches to deal with the difficult task of deforestation and forest degradation and to promote forest conservation and restoration by examining and understanding the real elementarily causes of forest loss. These include the demand for wood and the conversion to agricultural land.

The weakness of supporting cultural values, indigenous rights of responsibility to land, and community-conserved areas also contribute to the cause of forest loss.16 Deforestation is not the blame of a single country, but is an issue shared by many countries.

At the beginning of the 21st Century, the top 10 countries with the highest rate of deforestation are shown in Figure According to the figure, forest loss is happening quickly in Brazil, double the rate of forest loss in Indonesia, the second-place country with the highest rate of forestation.17 Figure 1. Top 10 Countries with Forest Loss.18 2.1. Demand for Wood The high need for wood is the main cause of deforestation.

This occurs by the consumers of forests; such as, industrialized countries, as well by the domestic community who use forests as an easily accessed resource of fuel.19 It is believed that around one half of illegal timber logging is due to fuel wood demand. Wood is used for cooking and heating all over the world.20 Also, wood is used for house building, paper manufacturing, and furniture construction.

Burning wood to make charcoal, which can be used as fuel, is another reason for wood consumption in various countries. These countries, have almost a daily electricity outage, especially the poor countries, such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, and Georgia, where people store wood and buy it as an emergency fuel supply. In other countries, like Cameroon, the need for cutting down forests is for processing outfits that require the regular request of raw materials in the form of wood.21 2.2.

Conversion to Agriculture Because of the ongoing growth of the human population, there is clearly a need for nutrition.