Desertification and Examples Such as The Dust Bowl

Especially in developing countries such as India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the world's population is rapidly increasing every year. As the population rises beyond natural equilibrium, we begin to see our ecosystem being blown away. Every year millions of new lands are used to produce livestock and food, but some people are strongly required to produce more land on the same land. The delicate balance in our ecosystem is not constantly synchronized. As more meadows are grazed, the forests are cut down, the grasslands are cultivated, and the amount of soil that may be eroded increases.

Desertification became well known when parts of the Great Plains in the United States became a "dust bowl" due to poor drought and agricultural practices in the 1930s, but the term itself was used until around 1950 did not. Millions of people were forced to give up their farm and life during the bowl. The Great Plains' agriculture and land and water management methods improved greatly, and this disaster ceased to occur, but desertification is currently affecting millions of people on almost every continent .

The drought in the Sahel, which began in 1968, killed 100,000 to 250,000 people, killed millions of people in five countries and collapsed the agricultural base (by UNEP's Daniel Stiles).

The climate event in the American history was a drought of "sandstorm" that destroyed the state in the middle of America, Highplains. In the 1930s, the dust bowl nearly exhausted the already depressed US economy, resulting in losses of several million dollars. The plains of the United States are semi-arid areas or grasslands. The next most desert climate has a semi-arid climate less than 20 inches (510 mm) per year, exposing the drought to serious weather risks. More importantly, the plains are arranged. Strong wind then produces a sandstorm

In most parts of the western United States, we are facing a great risk of desertification now. This is not just a bit of drought or dust cracking. The risk here is at least the proportion of sandstorm. If the western part of the soil of the health problem is resolved, our Plaza State (Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Idaho, Mongolia) part of the Dana State The area will also be sand dunes. Desertification has been considered as a result of overgrazing for decades. To be fair is sometimes. But in principle, we accepted the fact that healthy ecosystems not only adapt to grazing ruminants, but also rely on them. Mower has played a healthy important role of the soil, if we want to repair their own soil (and perhaps even altering them to the existing carbon sinks), herbivorous animals play an important role can do. How important is the character? Alan Saboli, pioneer of the grassland ecosystem, will inspire you.