Most people are aware of the devastating resultant of deforestation on the Amazon Rainforest. Not in addition to hence many people are aware of the as worrying 'degradation' of forests. With deforestation the wood is completely cleared in addition to left for pasture, monoculture or only abandoned. Forest degradation is the thinning of tree density which leads to the removal of of import biodiversity. It is frequently caused yesteryear logging, fire, drought or hunting.
The extensive wood clearance caused yesteryear deforestation tin privy move relatively slowly to location using aerial surveys or fifty-fifty satellite imagery. Forest degradation on the other paw tin privy move a lot harder to monitor from the air as the tree canopy tin privy withal be higher upwards the thinning tree density.
The Silent Forest projection has been started yesteryear a squad of Brazilian in addition to unusual scientists to assess the extent in addition to demeanour upon of wood degradation inwards the Amazon Rainforest. As run of this monitoring the projection has released an interactive map to exhibit Contributing Factors to Degradation inwards the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. The map shows the extent to which fire, logging, hunting in addition to fragmentation are leading to wood degradation.
The Silent Forest website too includes a hexagon grid map of the Brazilian acre of Pará. The grid map shows the per centum loss of biodiversity across the whole state.
