1. REFORESTATION
Prepared by
Azam
Fariz
Nisa’
Sheyreen

2. What is reforestation?
• Reforestation is the restocking of
existing forests and woodlands which have
been depleted, an effect of deforestation.
• Deforestation is the removal of a forest or
stand of trees.

3. Why is it important?
• improve the quality of human life by
soaking up pollution and dust from the air
• The aim of reforestation is to plant more trees to replace the
one that has been cut.
• As more trees are planted, the effect of carbon dioxide
emission to the environment can be lessen since the trees will
absorb carbon dioxide(pollutants) and transfer it into
breathable oxygen.
• This process is called photosynthesis.
• Since carbon dioxide is one of the major pollutants in the air,
planting more trees will help to lessen the percentage of
carbon dioxide in the air and thus, reducing the impacts of air
pollution to human beings and other living things.

5. • Rebuild natural habitats and
ecosystems
• Deforestation is not the only reason for the
destruction of our natural ecosystem.
• Sometimes, natural phenomena such as
landslides do destruct the natural habitat of
living organisms in an ecosystem.
• When reforestation is done in the destructed
area, it helps to bring back the natural
habitat of the living organisms and thus
bringing back the balance of an ecosystem.

9. • Mitigate global warming
• Forests absorb carbon dioxide through their
photosynthesis cycle, and by using this idea, increasing
forests with reforestation and discouraging deforestation
will help mitigate global warming.
• There are three major strategies available to mitigate
carbon emissions through forestry activities:
a) increase the amount of forested land through a
reforestation process.
- Most of our forested lands and landscapes has been
changed due to deforestation. Reforestation helps to
bring back the deforested area to its original landscapes
by increasing the amount of forested land.

10. b) expand the use of forest products (fruits, rubber,
water, medicine, bush meat, dyes, gums, fibres,
food, saps, fodder, fish, wood, timber, chewing
sticks) that will sustainably replace fossil-fuel
emissions
c) reduce carbon emissions that are caused from
deforestation.
-When trees are cut down, there will be less trees
to absorb the excessive amount of carbon dioxide
in the air. That is why reforestation is done. The
trees that has been cut down will be replaced and
the impact of carbon emissions in the air can be
reduced.

11. • Harvest for resources
• Reforestation need not be only used for recovery
of accidentally destroyed forests. In some
countries, such as Finland, the forests are
managed by the wood products and pulp and
paper industry.
• In such an arrangement, like other crops, trees
are replanted wherever they are cut.
• In Canada, the wood product and pulp and paper
industry systematically replaces many of the trees
it cuts, employing large numbers of summer
workers for tree planting work.

13. What has been done?
• From all around the world, incentives on reforestation has been
introduced in order to encourage people to plant more trees.
• Some incentives for reforestation can be as simple as a financial
compensation.
• Streck and Scholz (2006) explain how a group of scientists from various
institutions have developed a compensated reduction of deforestation
approach which would reward developing countries that disrupt any
further act of deforestation.
• Countries that participate and take the option to reduce their emissions
from deforestation during a committed period of time would receive
financial compensation for the carbon dioxide emissions that they
avoided.
• The funds received by the country could be invested to help find
alternatives to the extensive cut down of forests.
• This whole process of cutting emissions would be voluntary, but once the
country has agreed to lower their emissions they would be obligated to
reduce their emissions.

14. • In Java, Indonesia each
newlywed couple is to give
whoever is sermonizing
their wedding 5 seedlings
to combat global warming.
Each couple that wishes to
have a divorce has to give
25 seedlings to whoever
divorces them.

15. Reserved forest In malaysia
1. Bako National Park, Sarawak
2. Endau-Rompin
3. Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak
4. Kinabalu National Park, Sabah
5. Taman Negara
6. Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary,
Sandakan, Sabah