habitats.■ Grow timber on longer rotations.
■ Reduce or eliminate clear-cutting, shelterwood cutting, and seed-tree
cutting on sloped land.
■ Rely on more sustainable tree-cutting methods, such as selective and strip
cutting.
■ Reduce fragmentation of remaining large forests.
■ Use sustainable techniques for tropical forests. These techniques include:
- Educating settlers about sustainable forest practices and their advantages
- Monitoring and enforcing cutting based on ecological principles
- Reducing subsidies that encourage tropical deforestation
- Providing debt-for-nature and conservation easements
- Creating subsidies for sustainable land practices
- Rehabilitating areas that have already been degraded
Figure 7.8 Rate of deforestation in tropical rainforests