Deforestation: A Brave New World

According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an estimated 18 million acres of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year. Undeniably, the deteriorating environmental situation, the increasingly severe pollution of the atmosphere, and water, the severe damage to the living environment of wild animals and plants, the extinction of many species, the deforestation and the transitional mining of mineral resources caused contrary facts. Human existence and development have brought real and more serious potential threats. The scarcity of environmental resources is manifested gradually. As environmental issues are becoming a bottleneck restricting economic growth, it is imperative that lousy effect governed the environment.

Animals in forests are going extinct due to a very disastrous cause. For example, there is a specific tiger race that only has fewer than four hundred left in the world who live in these forests of which are being torn down and burned every single day. With the rates of deforestation rising, these tigers will be gone altogether in a matter of a couple of years. Not only will the animals be in danger, our environment will be, too. The area where the trees have been will dry out due to the water cycle that the trees are involved in helping with being less effective.

Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. Half of the world’s tropical forests have been cleared or degraded. Some people ask why forests’ are being cleared. It is typically done to make more land available for other things like housing, cash crops, oil, and cattle ranching. Most of what everyone does with deforestation is said to be illegal. Common methods of deforestation are clear cutting and burning trees. The burning method can be done either quickly or slowly. Quickly for plantation use or more slowly using the slash and burn technique. The many reasons why farmers and other people do that is to get money to feed there family or like it was stated early, to make room for growing crops or livestock. Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to people’s need to provide for there families or money. Logging operations, which provide the world’s paper and wood products, also cut a number of trees down each year. Loggers, some of them doing it illegally, also build roads to get to more and more remote forests, which leads to further deforestation. Not all deforestation is a terrible thing and intentional. Deforestation comes in handy when in need to build a new oil place. There are a lot of natural factors that play into deforestation like wildfires and subsequent overgrazing. Most of the deforestation occurs in the tropics, which is a terrible place because they have poor soil for

Entire ecosystems are filled with unique species, and the frightening reality is deforestation takes the habitat out from underneath its inhabitants (Bradford 2015). Forests have been cleared at a rate so astonishingly fast, that over half of all known forests have been compromised. If this type of behavior continues, the natural world will have to be given a new name, because nothing left will be "natural". Rainforests clearly have an outward benefits, from cleaning the air we breathe, to different diversity among the species who inhabit this Earth. Organismal density around the equator is exceptionally high, yet humans feel the need to clear much of that land for different use. Urbanization and the need for more agricultural space play a critical role in how much land humans clear. What we as a species forget is how all of these trees and biomes impact the world on a grander scale. Water vapor is needed to complete the water cycle, but without trees constantly humidifying the air, the cycle becomes less fluid. Sturdy trees like the ones in much of the rainforest hold the soil and anchor it from eroding. Because deforestation completely removes all the

Meeting in the middle of argument and opposition are the group of people who do not care about the controversial issue of climate change and deforestation. One reason that some people are not interested is they believe that it will not affected them in their life time and that climate change is not a worry. One more reason that is closely tied to the argument and opposition is that it is a burned out topic and it does not matter

This paper will examine the various components of deforestation on a local and global scale. The following data seen throughout the research paper will analyze the different types of deforestation and the detrimental impact it leaves on the earth.. I contributed my own data and analysis in analyzing the time analysis of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the troposphere represented in Figure A. I created a time analysis map with NASA Giovanni between 1980 and 2002. The time period was chosen to represent the effects once deforestation began to increase around the 1980s. I also generated a map of deforestation in California through Global Forest Watch.

Rainforests around the world were once the most popular and most talked about parts of

Every single day, the Amazon Rainforest is losing a massive amount of area due to deforestation. The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and it is the world’s source of oxygen. Deforestation has slowed down years ago, but now, it is starting to increase and does not show that it will slow down. Earth without tree’s, the human race and animals would not be able to survive. Today’s society is not taking deforestation as a serious matter. If deforestation were to be left alone, the planet and animals would not be the only ones suffering from it. Deforestation is a big issue that has to be made known and find a solution to end it. The causes and the effects of deforestation should be made known to the society and the importance

Human development relies on deforestation as a method to reclaim land, to cultivate more farmlands, to sell forest products and to increase economic prosperity, but with serious consequences of environmental degradation and global climate change. The country of Nepal has an alarming rate of deforestation. Due to its geographical positioning, it is in a prime position to sequester a significant amount of carbon from our atmosphere with its forests. However, like much of South Asia, Nepal has lost much of the forest that was once widespread and only 30% of the forest that covered Nepal still remains (Niraula et al. 2013).

Throughout the world, people have been cutting trees down all through history, even back when George Washington was president and way before then as well.There have been multiple reasons for cutting down trees, whether it is for survival or to build a house, some industries cut down the forest to make room for factories. It has not always been as easy as getting a chainsaw or wood chipper, before the industrial revolution people used to have to saw the trees and it was a lot more time consuming and physically painful. That is the past, but in the present time deforestation is an even worse problem and it is affecting everyone and everything. Cutting down trees have a positive or negative effect depending on you and the environment around you.

The most destructive and harmful tragedy that our rainforests, specifically the Amazon, suffer from is deforestation. Deforestation is the clearing or destruction of land throughout forests. Unfortunately, human beings are the number one cause of deforestation throughout the world. The reason if this is simply because we use the wood mainly for things like hydroelectric dams that power communities, palm oil for its biofuel resourcefulness, and the mining for diamond and gold. Another reason would be intentional fires that are used to destroy acres of forest in a quick amount of time for things like construction. Using fires to clear out land quickly is used because taking the time to clear out the land for what will be built would be slower using any other process. The wood can be useful but little do they know that deforestation is extremely harmful to the environment.

Life on Earth could not continue is not for the existance of forests. Even though most people know this, many people do not know that one and a half acres of forest are cut down every second. Deforestation is one of the biggest ecological problems our world faces today. Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest area for uses including agricultural, residential, and commercial. Deforestation contributes to other ecological proeblems as well, such as global warming.

Logging, which is largely apparent in many countries particularly in Asia and Africa and mining hinders the development of a sustainable environment. These issues both degrade the environment as they destroy natural habitats, reduce biodiversity, and contribute to the release of greenhouse gas emissions (“Illegal Logging,” n.d).

Imagine: animals flee in horror as their homes are cleared out by bulldozers and chainsaws; overhead birds are soaring, scavenging for a new nest after their tree viciously crashed to the ground. However, miles of barren and dead land are all these poor animals can find. Now to some people, this may resemble a cheesy animated movie where the animals have voices and eventually fight back to win their freedom. However, to innocent animals around the world, this is no laughing matter: this is reality. It has been found that through the years, millions of plant and animal species have been driven to extinction because they were deprived of a home (“Deforestation Stats, Statistics on”). “Seventy percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live

Rich black soil, towering tropical trees, the distant sound of a hollering monkey and the smell of damp leaves paint the picture of a tropical rainforest. The most famous and valuable tropical forests include the Amazon, Congo Basin, Indonesia and the forests of the Russian Far East and have been debated as endangered for decades. These rainforests mainly differ in soils, geology, precipitation patterns, the wildlife which resides there but all share the abundance of natural wealth including sturdy woods, medicines and spices and are sought out by many. However the long debated question still stands if deforestation is something of the past or an on going and current threat.