25 logging conversation questions

A printable list and worksheet of discussion questions about logging, wood, and deforestation. The most challenging words in this exercise include – plantation, furniture, third-world, machinery, transport, deforested, recycled, products, benefits, protected, species, consume, lumberjack, alternative, and construction.

The logging conversation questions are –

1 – How do you feel about logging?

2 – Is logging a problem in your country? Is it policed at all?

3 – Does your country have tree plantations? What kinds of trees are grown?

4 – What are some of the main reasons people cut down trees?

5 – Do you ever think about where your wooden furniture comes from?

6 – How can logging be stopped in third-world or developing countries?

7 – What are some different ways that logging is carried out?

8 – What kinds of machinery are used to cut down trees and transport logs?

9 – In your country, can anyone cut down a tree when they want to?

10- What kinds of trees are cut down where you live? Why are they cut down?

11- What types of wood are very expensive to buy?

12- Why is the Amazon jungle being deforested so quickly?

13- What wooden things are there in your home? Where did they come from?

14- What is wood mostly used for in your country?

15- Do you recycle paper or ever buy recycled paper products?

16- What benefits does wood have over plastic?

17- If you had to cut down a tree in your backyard, how would you do it?

18- What would the world be like if there were no forests left?

19- Can logging ever be environmentally friendly? How can it be done?

20- What can happen to hills and land that have had their trees removed?

21- Do you know of any protected species of trees in your home country?

22- What country do you think consumes the largest amount of wood?

23- Would you like to be a lumberjack? Do you think it would be hard work?

24- What alternatives to wood are there in construction?

25- How tall was the biggest tree you have ever seen be cut down?