According to Wikipedia (2008), deforestation can be defined as the removal of a forest or a stand of trees where land exists. According to United Nations data (2006), the rate of deforestation in Malaysia is accelerating faster than that of any other tropical country in the world. There are countless causes and effects of deforestation on nature and its wildlife and it is essential to determine ways to overcome uncontrolled deforestation. Due to the failure of the Malaysian government to provide figures showing changes in the extent of primary forests during the period 1990 to 2000 to 2000 to 2005, analysis of the figures by the United Nations for Food and Agriculture shows that the annual rate of deforestation in Malaysia jumped 86 percent between those years. In total, Malaysia has lost an average of 140,200 hectares, or the equivalent of 0.65 percent of its forest area, every year since 2000. This is devastating because our country has lost an average of 78,500 hectares, or 0 .35 percent of its forests, per year during the 1990s. Malaysia's vast decline in forest cover is mainly the result of urbanization, forest conversion for palm oil plantations, and agricultural fires. The main driver of deforestation is that government institutions and other large logging companies see extremely large profits in mass deforestation. , namely tropical forests. Due to the profitability of our natural resource; lumber, the government and other logging companies want to make a quick buck by saving on logging. According to Butler (2010), logging, which is generally excluded from the Food and Agriculture Organization's deforestation figures, is responsible for the extent of the fore......mid paper ......y/19581-084680b1f4663ce1329be71aae32b1903 .pdfNilsson, S. (2001), Do we have enough forests? Retrieved August 10, 2011 from http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/nilsson.htmlRichmond, S., Cambon, M., Harper, D., & Watkins, R. (2001). Lonely Planet; Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Victoria, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. Samsudin Musa (2004), dealing with deforestation and degradation through sustainable forest management by [Electronic version]. Retrieved August 7, 2011 from http://unfccc.int/files/methods_and_science/lulucf/application/pdf/060830_samsudin.pdf Simmer, J. (2010). 8 basic ways to prevent deforestation. Retrieved August 4, 2011 from http://www.save-the-trees.info/8-basic-ways-of-preventing-deforestation/Wikipedia (201108). Retrieved August 10, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation