Deforestation In The Amazon Rainforest

Deforestation has been a major concern in tropical rainforests, this is an act of destructing a forest for multiple reasons including wood supply, agriculture purposes or the extraction of minerals and energy. Forest loss till date is 18.03 million acres per year and it has been estimated that within 100 years all rainforests will be destroyed.

Deforestation poses an alarming threat to Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and it has been a serious concern for over 40 years. For thousands of years, the abundant, valuable resources in the Amazon were familiar only to the indigenous people of the region. In the 1500’s, before European colonization of Brazil, there were an estimated six to nine million individuals part of different cultures that made up a rich Amazonian society (“History”). Surrounded by the luxuriant rainforest and its natural resources, these indigenous tribes were able to thrive by utilizing the resources without destroying their habitat. After European emigration, the government of Brazil exploited the value of the Amazon’s resources in the twentieth century. In the 1970’s, the Brazilian government discovered the “untapped source of boundless potential” hiding in the Amazon and began using incentives to persuade settlers to develop its resources (Casey). Once economists realized the importance of the resources found within the rainforest, European pioneers set out to transform the Amazon into their home. By endorsing colonization, the government could not only boost the country’s economy, but also gain control over Brazil’s vast territory. The government supported migration to the rainforest and campaigned for the construction of infrastructure (“History”). In concurrence, the development of roads such as the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a 2,000 mile road built in 1972, granted people and machinery entrance to

When forests are cut down it disturbs the climate and weather pattern on earth and threatens millions of organism and plants already living there. There's consequences to these actions; human are forgetting about the lives that lives in these forest. Animals are either left to die or having to move away and find another place to live, leaving the place they once called home. Human activities has also caused climate change. This has huge effects on the rainforest. According to the FAO's Global Forest Resource Assessment in 2015, forest destruction are happening frequently. This causes damages to the quality of the forest decreasing the chances of goods that are able to be produced. Human activities not only cause harm to the animals and creatures that live there but also to their own health is in danger. 250 different species of animals are found in the United states and Canada but their population are slowly decreasing due to forest depletion. The world resources institution guessed that around 1990 and 2020 that deforestation would cause 5-15% of the species in the world to be

Nowadays deforestation is the one of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the world. Deforestation is cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there might be serious impacts in future. For instance, extinction of endemic species of animals and plants which will be

Removal of trees does much harm to the soil and water supply. Forest soil is moist, this is due from tree coverage, blocking out the sun. Consequently, removal of the trees causes the soil to dry out (National Geographic). Trees perpetuate the water cycle by returning water vapor back into the atmosphere. Tree roots greatly stabilize both soil and water, without these roots, water quickly washes away the soil, carrying many nutrients and minerals with it. Deforestation also causes water pollution. Tree roots not only hold the soil in place but help filter out pollutants in the water, without these roots pollutants quickly find their way into our water supply systems. The greatest impact deforestation has is no doubt on the animal and plant kingdom, covering over 70% of the forest (World Wildlife). The act of deforestation causes the loss of habitat to millions of species, and even pushes some to the brink of extinction. Plants are another vital source needed that the forest provide. Many plants of the Amazon alone

        Rainforests are the lungs of the planet. This means that they turn carbon-dioxide that we produce into reusable oxygen that we need. If deforestation keeps continuing then the number of trees would decrease. Slowly, there would be less and less oxygen that is crucial for humans to live. We release carbon dioxide that kills us and we kill rainforests that could save us.

In whichever case, the land would take years to grow back to being what it was. Therefore, the amount of trees cut by deforestation is still greater than the amount of trees regrown by reforestation and thus effecting Amazon’s plant biodiversity. A prediction by the World Wildlife Organization states that by 2030, 55% of the Amazon’s Rainforest could vanish if current deforestation rates are maintained . Meaning half of its plant biodiversity could be gone by that time. Deforestation not only harms plant biodiversity it also harms the animals. Many living organisms are very sensitive to their environmental changes. The loss of their own niches would compel them to join other organisms in their niche. In this case the organisms who lost their niche would act as the invasive species and depending on other climatic or ecological factors these two species would cease to coexist. One of these two species might go extinct due to competitive exclusion or, as Darwin’s theory implies, survival of the fittest.

First, rainforest destruction does have major consequences. According to the National Geographic, 80% of animals that live in rainforests can not live without their homes. Climate change is also a huge effect. The climate change will cause the soil to dry out and when you have dry soil, it causes the trees to dry out and die. When trees are dying, people will illegally cut them down by something called logging. Logging is when people cut trees down in order to use it as timber. When this happens, the animals will have no place to live or get food and will die. People use the wood to make fires, furniture, and charcoal. This eventually leads to greenhouse gases in the air. Greenhouse gases will kill the trees and will make animals lose their homes.

If we humans allow deforestation many animals can become extinct. We should not allow deforestation. Some people say deforestation is good because we get more livable space however carbon dioxide get’s increased in the area. Animals that need rainforest will die and become extinct. Carbon dioxide gets increased in the area. And last it will Hinder the production of future medicines. These are three reasons to show deforestation is bad.

Deforestation connected to three main parts animals, land and air. Deforestation effect animals directly, the food chain and food web will be broken if one of the types of animals extinct. For example, monkeys they live on trees, eagles and gorillas eat them. If you imagine that if monkeys extinct by people cutting trees, eagles and gorillas don’t have enough food to eat, and they will decrease their population and so on. Deforestation effect the land as well as it effects the animals, when trees being cut down, the soil under the trees will lose part of the energy it needs to get, and this effect the soil erosion, and the trees that have being cut down will be rot afterward. This will also cost land pollution, it effects people to have cancer and skin affection. Deforestation also effects air directly, trees provide air to us every second when one tree had been cut down, that means we lost 0.001% of air. But if there’s a huge population of trees being cut down, we lost up to 20% of fresh air.

One of the reasons why the amazon rainforest is being deforested is because is cutting down trees for timber. Although this helpful because we use wood for everyday resources like chairs brushes and shoes the process also has some downfalls.One of these are the fact that whole ecosystems are being destroyed because once one element is taken (eg the tree) it will send a riccleshade of events that will affect the rest of the ecosystem. Some animals such as Rabbits, Monkeys and animals as big as pandas who are herbivores rely on plants for their food so if trees and plant cut/burnt down where are these animal going to get food from?

One in ten species in the world lives in the Amazon, which makes it the most biodiverse tropical rainforest in the world. This great expanse of rainforest harbors about half of all species on Earth. As large areas of this tropical forest are cleared by deforestation, entire species are vanishing, many of them unknown. The dense tropical forests also hold a large amount of carbon that is being released into the atmosphere because of deforestation. Although deforestation in the tropics is rapid and widespread, some people are making an increasing effort to mitigate potential disaster.

Rainforests, home of the jazzy jaguar, the shy sloth, the trendy toucan and the spry spider monkey, these animals are being forced out of their homes and ruining their way of life because a little thing called deforestation. According to the Pachamama Alliance, “Deforestation is the clearing, destroying, or otherwise removal of trees through deliberate, natural or accidental means. It can occur in any area densely populated by trees and other plant life, but the majority of it is currently happening in the Amazon rainforest” (Alliance). Deforestation is making it harder and harder for the animals of Rainforests to survive because it takes away homes for some of the animals and in turn messes up the food chain for these animals.

Deforestation has been plainly defined as a “large clearing of trees”, but it is much more than that. With mass amounts of tree removal there is also loss of habitat which destroys homes and causes many resources to go to waste. Logging, mining, cattle ranching, and oil/gas extraction are just a few causes of deforestation. The Amazon Rainforest being the largest rainforest in the world puts it at the highest risk to be destroyed. There are consequences that come along with deforestation being extinction, habitat loss, climate change and pollution. Those are just environmental effects; there can be culture loss, forceful relocation of tribes, political conflict involving deforestation, and loss of resources for the surrounding people. To

There are several pernicious effects of deforestation, one being that it demolishes the homes of millions of different species and plants. Approximately 80 percent of land animals and plants reside in the forest, according to the WWF. These different species and plants are threatened by deforestation by having to move to a different forest or risk the uncertainty of staying (“Deforestation” ❡6). This makes certain types of animals and plants have a higher risk of going extinct. Tree branches and leaves protect animals from high and low temperatures. The branches and leaves block sun rays and high temperatures during the daytime and during the night traps heat. Deforestation changes this by leaving animals unprotected from these temperatures (“Deforestation” ❡7). Also, according to Nova, a science television series, “about 40 percent of our prescription medicines come from plant extracts or synthesized plant compounds” (“Plant Medicines” ❡1). Medicine prevents different types of diseases, helps with symptoms, and also cures different illnesses. Deforestation reduces the amount of plants in the world and if it continues it will make the world not properly supplied with medication. This will result in more people would be sick, in pain, or even deceased. The rate of deforestation needs to excessively