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Not a Crime, But Kills

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  Deforestation is the activity of clearing the forest cover or trees on a larger extent without replacement. The result of this exercise often leads to deforestation of the quality of land, weather and even climate. The primary culprits in the deforestation exercise are loggers who are acing in legal and illegal instructions. Studies indicate that the world has had approximately half of the forest cleared through loggings where no new trees have been planted. Picture From Google That can be translated into 18 million acres of land and it represents such a great loss to the environment Tree harvesting is not a criminal act, but the policy of environmental sustenance necessitates that when trees are cut down they need to be replaced with new planted ones. The question is, is the replacement taking place, especially in Adamawa state where activities of cutting of Madrid trees reached its peak living our forest empty. According to the World Bank about 3.9 million square mile...

Environmental Impacts of Polythene in Our Communities

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Human activities generate many by-products which are generally seen as useless and discard as wastes. These massive amounts of wastes subsequently find their ways into ground, air, water every day and at the end becomes big problem to human health and economic development. One of such by-products is polythene popularly called Leda in Hausa. The used of polythene is increasing day by day , it is being used in almost every day activity of life by implication the pollution level caused by it will also increase thereby affecting almost every kind of environment including terrestrial   as well as aquatic biome. Picture from Google     Today in all the nooks and crannies of our communities, polythene are scattered everywhere and caused problems because it can’t decompose easily, it disseminate germs through pollution, block water ways and affects aquatic environment among others. With this in mind and going by the volume of polythene dumped into our water bodies and lan...

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