DAY 5: Blink and You’ll Miss It
Activity 1: Towering Timbers [4 points]
There is a long and rich history of logging in New Zealand. Logging involves cutting down trees. The people who cut them down are called loggers. The trees that they cut down are sold and used to build things (eg. houses), to make products (eg. paper), and to generate (create) heat and power. Over the past two centuries, many of the trees in New Zealand have been cut down by loggers.
Left: NZ native forest Right: A logged forest
Some people like logging because it creates jobs for the loggers and generates money for New Zealand while others are against (opposed to) logging. Many of those opposed are worried that logging will damage the environment. It might also force animals who live in trees (eg. owls) to find new homes.
What do you think about logging?
On your blog tell us whether you think logging should be allowed in New Zealand. Be sure to provide at least two reasons to support your argument.
I will say no don't cut trees because....
- It could ruin wildlife because if you cut down a tree where a bird lives they could lost their home and no where else to live.
- The more we cut trees the more we lost oxygen. Oxygen is very important if there is not oxygen we could have died by now.
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Hi again Rheanne-Mae,
ReplyDeleteI like how you have come up with 2 reason as to why you don't agree with logging. I can see why you don't agree with logging, I too get concerned about the wildlife and destroying their homes and you also have a great point around the fact that they produce oxygen and we need that to be able to breathe.
If we didn't have logging then we wouldn't have wood to build our homes, can you think of any other materials we could use for building if we no longer logged trees for wood?
Until next time, happy blogging :)