在热带低地,薪炭材短缺或许未达到危机,但树木正在遭到大规模的破坏。例如,预计在近十年内,菲律宾、马来半岛、印度尼西亚、西非、马达加斯加、中美洲和西印度群岛的低湿林将被转变为其他用途。采伐薪炭材将加速这种破坏。营造能源人工林将可帮助减慢由于薪炭材的采伐而造成的滥伐。据认为大约有10亿人居住在潮湿热带地区,其中约2亿人居住在森林内或森林的外 In a tropical depression, firewood shortages may not have reached a crisis, but the trees are undergoing massive damage. For example, it is estimated that the low-moisture forests in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, West Africa, Madagascar, Central America and the West Indies will be converted to other uses in the last ten years. Logging firewood will speed this damage. Building energy plantations will help slow down deforestation caused by logging firewood. About 1 billion people are thought to live in humid tropical regions, of whom about 200 million live outside forests or forests