Deforestation in New Zealand

1. New Zealand was the last land mass to be inhabited by humans. It was mostly all forest except for high alpine regions. The percentage of forest coverage in New Zealand has reduced from 85% to 56%. They have sent a direct action to protect the forests since 1970. There are now many legal rights set up to protect New Zealand's forests.
2. The social impact by deforestation in New Zealand is mostly that a lot of people don't want to loose all the unique beauty New Zealand has compared to a lot of other places on Earth. New Zealand's are very unique with many different species of animals, plants and trees, it would be devastating to loose it all. Also, some people want more room to live since New Zealand isn't a huge country and it is increasing in population. The environmental impact is that some unique plants and animals are becoming endangered since they aren't found in other places around the world. With global warming too it's causing some of the forest to be taken down because it can no longer survive in the rising heat. Economic impacts aren't huge, but the logging companies are not successful in New Zealand because of the laws enforced to protect the forests, and people who are trying to start businesses don't have a lot of space or options to do so.
3. I feel like deforestation is a greater threat in Canada because even though our country is huge we have lost lots of our forests. Even though now there are lots of efforts being done to restore our forests it wont be the same to what it was in the past.