Habitat Loss And Its Roots

The fast rise in the world’s population is one of the many major causes of deforestation. Since the population

Deforestation occurs primarily as a result of agriculture, fuel use and production, firewood, charcoal, timber harvesting, pasture-clearing for livestock animals, and expanding human settlements. When deforestation happens to a country that you live in it can have a huge impact, "These deforested areas almost always end up as wastelands via the processes of soil erosion and desertification, if they aren’t reforested. Many of the areas of the world that were deforested thousands of years ago remain as severely degraded wastelands or deserts today." Currently, the world’s annual rate of deforestation is estimated to be about 13.7 million hectares a year, which is roughly equal to the total land of Greece. Half of the areas deforested gets reforested to some degree, but these new-growth forests don’t function in the same ways, support the same biodiversity, nor do they provide the many benefits that old-growth forests do cause many societies to eventually collapse if they cannot come up with a better

The causes of deforestation vary in number a few have made a big impact on the problem. The USA's population has increased by over a hundred million people since 1970, more than half of the whole population at the time. As seen many factors come along with a growth in population things such as, a need for more space, and a need for more wood for conventional uses, all contribute to the huge increase of deforestation. With nearly one-quarter of America’s tree canopy existing in our backyards, city streets and parks, our population has a huge responsibility,according to, “United states, plant a billion trees”. The next big contributor to the problem of deforestation in the U.S. is land for livestock. In the U.S. one of the biggest causes of deforestation is land for livestock. The single biggest direct cause of tropical deforestation, is conservation to cropland and pastures, mostly for subsistence, which is growing crops or raising livestock to

Deforestation occurs for many reasons, agriculture due to the increasing need for food products, large amounts of trees are removed to grow crops and for animals (Deforestation and Its Effect, 2017). Logging because wood-based industries such as paper and furniture need a large supply of wood to produce the amount used by the population, the wood is also used as a fuel source (Deforestation and Its Extreme Effect, n.d.). Urbanization, the forests are destroyed to put in roads and buildings due to the growing population (Environmental Impact of Deforestation, n.d.). Forest fires are another way of

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.

As you can see deforestation is man made, not intentionally man made, but instead intentionally made for industrialization. Predominantly Indonesia has the highest rate of deforestation in the world and also is the world's third-largest producer of greenhouse gases behind China and the US, with 85% of its emissions coming from forest destruction and degradation (theG). The statistics as you can see are more alarming than perceived in the media and it is extremely imperative to help regulate and help with this mast tragedy of the

The first cost that should always be related to a surface water area is the destruction of the habitat. Once a habitat is destroyed it is hard and expensive to recover, if it can ever be recovered. Sometimes destruction is irreversible. According to Myers & Kent, “Well over half of the human population lives within 100 km of the coasts” (Myers & Kent, 2015). Agricultural lands surrounding these areas, along with other pollution from the metro areas are leading to the destruction on numerous habitats. As this increase in these area of nitrogen continue to rise, the nitrogen continues to pass on through the food chain. It is not just the immediate area that surrounds the surface water that can suffer, but as birds, reptiles, and mammals also frequently use surface water, and pass through the area, the nitrogen can have a multiplying effect as it passes from species to the next species (Myers & Kent, 2015). One fish may contain nitrogen levels that are still non-lethal, but when a bird or other species feeds on multiple fish this nitrogen level can increase inside the bird. Destruction of habitat is not the only effect of nitrogen pollution, and agriculture where it may be the leading problem, is not entirely at fault.

Deforestation has lead to terrible living conditions and 38 species have been driven to extinction. John Vidal, author of “The Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear Within 20 Years,” writes about the ways logging companies are getting past regulations to take more land and logs away from the forest and natives. Ian Sample, author of “Amazon’s Doomed Species Set to Pay Deforestation’s ‘Extinction Debt,’” on the other hand mostly talks about the affects deforestation has on animals. Vidal has the better argument over Sample because his explanations about its effects on humans and corruption from companies and the government.

Some causes of deforestation are agricultural expansion wood extraction and infrastructure expansion such as road building and urbanization. State policies to encourage economic development such as road and railway expansion projects have caused significant, unintentional deforestation in the Amazon and Central America.

From 1990 to 2005, deforestation, or the removal of trees, was happening at an average rate of 13 million hectares (32.11 million acres) per year (Hope 247). In many ways, deforestation has been the reason for great economic success which turns people on to the idea even more. Deforestation is an essential element in promoting and encouraging developmental growth. Some places around the world may feel obligated to resort to deforestation due to population increases around the world. The concept of deforestation may seem to have a positive impact on society, but many people fail to consider the importance of replanting the trees that were harvested and removed. Deforestation mainly affects North and South America, but because of the Transamazon

The reason why deforestation happen are many and they include the harvest of wood to make tins like paper and furniture for home, to produce thing that will be used in creating item for human beings like oil which can be got from palm tree, and to create areas that can be use for cattle

The first contributor to deforestation that will be talked about is Agricultural expansion. Agriculture is a booming industry in this day and time and it will continue to be a big part of the economy because their will always be a big demand for it. Without agriculture this world would not be in existence today. There is an increase in global demand for resources such as palm oil and soybeans which are encouraging large scale industrial producers to clear forest to make room for crop space. Efforts are made to restore plantations but even though

There are many causes/factors to deforestation, which are largely associated with direct human influence. The first proximate cause to deforestation is infrastructure expansion (Geist & Lambin, 2002, p. 144). This refers to transportation (roads), private and public markets, rural and urban settlements, and private and public services (water lines, oil exploitation, etc…) (Geist & Lambin, 2002, p. 144). The next cause is agricultural expansion, which includes, large or small-scale cultivations, shifting cultivations (slash and burn), and, of course, cattle ranching. Wood extractions for industrial and domestic purposes are other proximate causes to this issue.

1. Animals are endangered and becoming extinct, because humans have no regards for the natural habitat that animals need to survive, less causing animal death which pollutes soil.

Sumatran elephants are classified as critically endangered with an estimated population of 2,400-2,800 (Gopala et al., 2001, p.1; WWF, 2017c, para.1). The conservation status of Sumatran elephants was changed in 2012 to critically endangered due the population halving in just one generation (WWF, 2017c, para.4). This population loss is attributed to poaching, unauthorised removal of elephants from the wild, human-wildlife conflict and forest conversion for palm oil, paper and pulp plantation (Gopala et al., 2001, p.4; WWF, 2017c, para.4).