The importance of forests towards sustainable development
Forest are critical to achieving the sustainable development goals{SDG's}, and a vital part of our global ecosystem {UNFAO,2018}.
They help keep our climate stable, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, and they regulate our water supply and improves its quality especially in rural area. They also provide a home to more than half of all species found on land – a rich variety of life that keeps so many natural systems running.In general we can say forests are our life support system.
But human impacts have already led to the loss of around 40% of the world’s forests.When forests are destroyed, they release large quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change,erosion, loss of biodiversity,it also leads to drought,desertification and land degradation
We must manage forests sustainably by afforestation and re-forestation , preventing deforestation as well as our policies and laws regarding forests
