Table of contents– Forests and climate change– Sustainable forest management– Biodiversity and forests– Tourism and forests

The importance of forests

• Atmosphere• Food and home• Resources• Prevent soil erosion• Prevent flooding• Stabilizing effect on the world´s climate

Atmosphere

• Atmosphere in forests is relaxing• Clean air

Food and home• Provide food and home for animals

ResourcesWood is used for- Houses- Heating- Furniture- Floor- Paper

Prevent soil erosion

Prevent flooding

Stabilizing effect on the world´s climate

• fossil fuels burned -> release carbon dioxide -> trees change carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar

Sustainable forest management

• Replant trees which were cut down• Avoid deforestation• Only cut down trees that grow fast enough• Increase forest areas - Plant more trees than

you cut down• Cut down trees which are dead or sick

Right and wrong use of wood resource

• Use handkerchief instead of tissue • Do not throw aways notebooks/exercise

books, which aren`t filled up and recycle them then

• Use every part of the tree that´s cut down• Recycle paper• Write on both sides of a paper• Do not cut down forest just because of money

Sustainable tourism

• Sustainable tourism means- visit nature without damaging it- See nature in its original form- experience nature from close up

Facts about tourism• 980 million people travelled internationally in 2011 ( a 4%

increase over 2010) and this is expected to reach 1.5 billion by 2020

• International tourists spend over US$700 per person on their travel

• Travel and tourism represents approximately 10% of total global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (if it includes tourism- related businesses (e.g. catering, cleaning)

• Global travelling and tourism industry creates approximately 10% of the world's employment (directly & indirectly)

Tourism affects National Parks

• Tourism destroys nature (eg. picking of flowers, dropping rubbish)

• Bicycle tours, cave tours in nature parks• National parks in Germany and Hungary

References• http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/forest3_h.jpg• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_forest_management• http://www.vastern.co.uk/green-issues.html• http://blogs.bootsnall.com/theglobaltrip/updates/DSC07440pandasmile.JPG• http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ehow/images/a06/s4/59/do-heat-wood-burning-firepla

ce_-800x800.jpg

• http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=557• http://www.loghouse.fi/loghouse-photos/log-house-1/• http://intechweb.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/soil-erosion-raising-awareness-on-current-envi

ronmental-issues/

• http://www.ourplanet.org.uk/floods-climate-change.asp• http://

www.programturizmus.hu/images/upload/big/ajanlat/termeszeti-kepzodmenyek/tanosveny/8494-ipolytarnoc-borokas.jpg

• http://sdt.unwto.org/en/content/about-us-5• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCkk_National_Park• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis

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