What is afforestation and its advantages?

Answer 1

Advantages:

1. Gives us shelter from the hot and humid sun

2. Holds the sand firm to the ground so that it will not be blown by the wind everywhere and the world will not become deserts.

3. Help stop global warming by reducing carbon dioxide by breathing it in and gives out oxygen.

4. Being a food producer which provides food for some herbivores.

Disadvantages:

1. Conducts electricity when there's thunder.

2. Takes up space that could be used for land development.

Answer 2

Advantages:

• It removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, slowing global warming.
• It helps meet the world's increasing demands for timber and forest products
• Soil erosion is avoided as trees prevent rapid run off after heavy rainfall.
• Tourism is encouraged.
• Jobs are provided.
• Wildlife is preserved
• Trees provide oxygen
• The beauty of the landscape is preserved

Disadvantages:

• Blanket planting spoils the natural look of the landscape
• It increases fire risks
• It is sometimes cheaper to import timber from other countries
• It limits access for hikers and recreational users.
• It may reduce tourism

Answer 3

It may increase fire risk in tropical region like the northern Nigeria

Answer 4

Afforestation is planting seeds or trees to make a forest on land which has not been a forest recently, or which has never been a forest.