In the previous blog, I talked about how environmental pollution hazards, both water and air pollutions, are urban issues in Concepción, Chile and its solution. In this blog, I will be talking about another urban issue that this society has to face.
Chile’s main environmental problem is the widespread of deforestation, which is the clearing of the forestland by cutting down all the trees. Cutting down all the trees threatens the natural resources and leads to soil erosion. Soil erosion is a process that removes the soil layers and carries them away from fields (especially a farmer’s field) to other places, such as a body of water or another land. Its impact is the loss of valuable soil and its nutrients which are a necessity for crops to grow. Due to Deforestation, Chilean farmers aren’t able to grow enough crops or raise enough livestock to feed the entire country’s population. As a result, their food must be imported from other countries at a very expensive price.
As a solution, Concepción society has came together to fight against deforestation. They have organized the Multi-Sectoral Commission for the Defense of the Natural Resources of Concepcion, in which they gathered a friendship with carpenters, students, teachers, trades-people, and small forest landowners. With the support of the local authority, they all promoted the broadcast of a Departmental Ordinance that prohibits the logging of various forest species in the forest of the region. This society continues to take on new measures, information, and resistance to stop deforestation that will damage many things and benefit very few.