• Ganesh Datt Bhatt

Ethiopia is an agricultural nation in the Dallol Depression with a wide topographical range from 110 m below sea level to 4620 m above sea level at Mount Ras Dashed. Ethiopia has varying climate conditions and the resulting complex habitats because of its topographical variation and position in the tropics. The nation is also well endowed with natural resources. Deforestation, however, has been continuing for the last five decades. Forests that were over 40 percent of the landmass of the world at the beginning of the 20th century were reduced in 2000 to 2.36 percent. Agricultural expansion is the main cause; growing demand for building materials, industrial use, fuel wood and charcoal; lack of forest protection and conservation policy; lack of a good forest management system capable of stopping the rapidly increasing rate of deforestation; lack of effort to ensure community engagement in forest protection and conservation; and lack of effort to ensure community participation in forest protection and conservation The remaining forests are mainly located in South Western Ethiopia. In northern highlands, one couldn’t find forests except old-aged Afromontane forests around the churches and in some inaccessible areas. However, other areas have been completely destroyed and converted to farms and grazing lands.

Causes, Deforestation, Ethiopia, Impacts, Remedy, Climate, Environment.

"Cause, Impact and Remedy of Deforestation in Ethiopia", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.53-56, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREO06017.pdf

"Cause, Impact and Remedy of Deforestation in Ethiopia", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp53-56, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREO06017.pdf