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The world's forests are indeed under tremendous pressure from industries and practices that deforest important ecosystems. However, the suggestions that put forward in the reading passage that the creation of an international protection fund will help protect these areas is flawed for several reasons. Firstly, agriculture is itself a destructive force upon the forest eco-system. With the rising populations, farmers are under constant pressure to increase harvest yields by using modern agricultural technology and practices. These include harmful practices such as fertilizer and pesticide use which have been proven to be detrimental to the surrounding environments because they create runoff waste and water pollution. This in turn leads to deforestation at a rate much worse than that of logging. Continued promotion agriculture as a solution to deforestation is not a good idea. Secondly, paying villagers and tribal communities a stipend is an inadequate solution to the deforestation problem. Disbursement of money from the international protection fund would mean that money would go to forest owners. More often than not theses owners are in fact governments, not residents. Therefore, a payout of this sort would not end up in the hands of these forest dwellers. Additionally, there is no guarantee that governments received money that would be appropriately used to protect the forest. Finally, if money is spent to promote bio-diversity by encouraging the planting of new forest. There is no doubt that people will plant trees which have commercial proposes. If people merely plant plantation forests, this will do nothing in the way of promoting the goal of forest bio-diversity. As you can see, the development of an international monetary fund to protect developing countries’ forests is rather inadequate.