Deforestation
Deforestation is a very serious matter. If you don’t know what deforestation is, it is chopping down entire forests permanently, because the forest holds something that some one wants. The main causes of deforestation are:
Space – clearing forests away to make room for houses, businesses, companies and other things that take up space.
Materials – Destroying forests to get the material that is inside it for example cutting down the trees for wood.
Agriculture is leading the way in deforestation.
Space – clearing forests away to make room for houses, businesses, companies and other things that take up space.
Materials – Destroying forests to get the material that is inside it for example cutting down the trees for wood.
Agriculture is leading the way in deforestation.
There are many reasons why deforestation is very bad for us:
•Forests are beautiful they show nature and beauty. We want to protect our beautiful forests and not let them be replaced with eyesores.
•Forests are beautiful they show nature and beauty. We want to protect our beautiful forests and not let them be replaced with eyesores.
•Forests and trees are important because they produce something that we humans DESPERATLY need, Oxygen. If all the forests are destroyed oxygen will be in very short supply and if it comes to us having no trees at all it won’t be long to we can’t breath any more and without being able to breath, we will die.
•Without trees and forests to protect the soil from the sun’s heat the moisture and nutrients in the soil will dry up. Bacteria that break down organic batter will be hurt. Erosion eventually happens from the rain-washing down the soil.
•Animals that live in forests, call the forest their home. When people come in with chain saws and big machines and chop down their forest. Imagine someone coming to your house and knocking it over with a bulldozer. Those animals now have no were to live and no way to survive. Around 50-100 species of animals are lost a day due to habit destruction. Some examples of animals that have died of dehabitation are: Po’ouli, Madeiran Large White, Javan Tiger, Spix’s Macaw.
•Without trees and forests to protect the soil from the sun’s heat the moisture and nutrients in the soil will dry up. Bacteria that break down organic batter will be hurt. Erosion eventually happens from the rain-washing down the soil.
•Animals that live in forests, call the forest their home. When people come in with chain saws and big machines and chop down their forest. Imagine someone coming to your house and knocking it over with a bulldozer. Those animals now have no were to live and no way to survive. Around 50-100 species of animals are lost a day due to habit destruction. Some examples of animals that have died of dehabitation are: Po’ouli, Madeiran Large White, Javan Tiger, Spix’s Macaw.
•Not only do forests make oxygen, but how they make it helps us as well. They make oxygen by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (as well as oxygen they use it to make carbohydrates, fats and proteins). If all the forests get destroyed, that means the carbon dioxide from the plants will be released. There will be no trees to take any carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ending in overheating in cool climates and extreme cooling in hot places.
With these examples you can see just how serious it is if we lose our forests. Though you may think, it will be ages until we have no more forests. WRONG! We are sawing our way on full speed to having no more forests left. Scientists have discovered that if deforestation stays at this rates then around 80-90% of tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by 2020 and in 100 years there will be no more rainforests at all. Every 2 seconds an area of a forest the size of a football field is destroyed.
So as you can see we are hurtling headfirst into having no more forests left. We do not have a lot of time to relax and just say that we will deal with this later, because if we do not act now there will be no more later.