Deforestation and its Natural Effect on the Environment of Afghanistan
Publisher: Asia Pacific University
Author(s): Sadeq Mir Aref
Date: 2015
Topics: Renewable Resources
Countries: Afghanistan
Deforestation has many negative impacts on the environment, human, animals, soil erosion, and loss of biodiversity and climate changes. In Afghanistan deforestation has made more prone to flash floods, and landslides; and every year it causes human deaths and people loss their houses and lands. For example, the recent landslide was occurred in Argo district of Badakhshan province, where more than 400 people died and thousand lost their homes and recently in 2014 many flash floods happen in different provinces of the country due to deforestation in deferent areas.