In the past couple of months local building projects have begun, or continued, in tearing down hundreds of acres of trees for new buildings. Deforestation has increasingly become a global issue, but it’s impacting us right here in Virginia Beach.
One of these projects is a sports stadium being built behind Regent University. Thirty-one acres of trees are being cut down to make room for this new stadium. That is equivalent to over a million feet of forest.
“I live in a neighborhood right next to Regent,” said English teacher Mrs. Kathleen Trace. “We’ve had an influx of animals in the neighborhood that we don’t normally see very often, like raccoons and foxes. We think they’re coming into the neighborhood because they were previously living in the woods behind Regent.”
This is just one of the many projects currently impacting Salem students and staff. Another project behind the Brock Environmental Center has affected many of Salem’s environmental studies students…