Talk:Deforestation

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The citation for the sentence "This led to a weakening of the domestic economy after Columbus' discovery of America, as the economy became dependent on colonial activities (plundering, mining, cattle, plantations, trade, etc.)[citation needed]" is https://oxfordre.com/economics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.001.0001/acrefore-9780190625979-e-480 Jetsetter84 (talk) 09:19, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: While I appreciate your effort at finding a source for that claim, I'm not sure that it supports what you say it does. The previous sentence to the one you quote is relevant; it says: Piracy also contributed to the over harvesting of forests, as in Spain. While that's not the clearest prose, it adds the context that the domestic economy from the next sentence is referring to Spain. I admittedly did not read the entirety of the article you provide here, but based on the summary and a couple of "Ctrl+F"s, it seems to be discussing the early economy of North America following colonialism, not the domestic economy of Spain. If there's something I'm missing by all means re-open this request. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 19:31, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

The junk mail section seems a very dubious. Listing it as if a driving cause of deforestation. Maybe could be turned into a section on paper usage? But even at that, a lot (most?) of paper production happens on separate tree farm specifically for it. Or alternatively should we just remove the section entirely?

Not that there aren't environmental harms from its paper usage. I just think it's very misleading putting that in a section here TB5ivVaO1y55FkAogw1X (talk) 05:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes it should be moved somewhere else. It is only about the US anyway and I wonder if the information is just about deforestation or merely about cutting trees (which are regrown in many cases). Zalaraz (talk) 13:22, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

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Change More than 80% of deforestation was attributed to agriculture in 2018. to More than 80% of deforestation was attributed to agriculture in 2012. Shady Whereareu1234 (talk) 23:13, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done Yes, the source is from 2012, so I made the change. RudolfRed (talk) 00:07, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

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This sentence "Between 15 million to 18 million hectares of forest, an area the size of Bangladesh, are destroyed every year." should have a citation and time-frame. It looks like this statistic is from 1990-2000; more recent deforestation rates have been about 11 million ha (see, e.g., https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/global-deforestation-slows--but-forests-remain-under-pressure--fao-report-shows/en).

Perhaps: "Deforestation rates from 2015-2025 remain high, at nearly 11 million hectares per year." Capriciouscapybara (talk) 20:56, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Partly done: I opted to remove the sentence in question, as the last paragraph of the lead section already provides more accurate and up-to-date figures for the deforestation rate. Day Creature (talk) 21:53, 18 November 2025 (UTC)