The Effects Of Cutting Down The Rainforests

Brazil’s rainforests and America’s rainforests are great examples of the negative effect that deforestation has on these specific areas. One of the rising challenges in our rapidly growing world is the destruction of rainforests and how it is slowly ruining the world that we live in. Deforestation has a lot of destructive impacts on the environment that is surrounding us, one of the most important being its effect on the climate. The fast rise in the world’s population, calling for high demand of resources, is only hastening the effects of deforestation, which can hopefully be put an end to through the enforcement of a handful of simple, key, and sustainable solutions.

Earth faces many problems. But the worst of them all is rainforest destruction. People are cutting down our trees in our rainforests. We need our rainforests on our Earth. Rainforest destruction is the most serious threat to our Planet!

This article (Health Research Funding) is about the pros and cons of rainforest deforestation. Even though rainforest deforestation is overall something that the world needs to stop completely, the few pros show the positive things about cutting our rainforests down. The first benefit is that there will be more room in the forests to grow is something to think about when cutting down forests. This is because our world may need more room in the rainforests but not so much that our wildlife is dying and there are no trees, although a bit of room would be ok. The second pro is that us humans do make use of the trees we cut down, and the third is, “Deforestation creates a strong revenue source for governments,” according to Health Research Funding.

“The role of humans in the deforestation of the world's forests is considerable and extensive.” Says Rhett Butler. Humans affect the rainforest many inadequate ways, such as deforestation, and wildfires. Deforestation

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

This planet is covered in forest. We just don’t notice them, and that is an issue. More and more industries are building and cutting down trees. It isn’t only in America, but the whole world. People need to be more aware of the benefits of these forests. Yes, there are positives to deforestation. Some companies need more buildings and people need houses, but there is still a way to make it not hurt our planet as much, and I want to help fix that.

Deforestation is another known contributor to global climate change. This is by contributing to global warming. According to Nanda (2011), trees are the main absorber of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Therefore, deforestation contributes global warming because less carbon dioxide was absorbed. Furthermore, decaying of these trees produces carbon dioxide. Therefore, governments should make legislation aimed at conserving and rehabilitating destroyed forests (Solomon et al., 2011).

The Earth is losing “upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily.” To put this into perspective this is 1/9 of the size of the state of Rhode Island that is being destroyed daily. Not only is the destruction of the rain forest causing problems for only the organisms living within the rainforest but also for people and industries worldwide. We need to save our rainforests so that we can continue to survive and also help the animals that live within the areas being destroyed. People are cutting these areas down for more development and empty land but causing more harm than good in the long run.

One of the major causes of rainforest destruction is logging. While logging can be carried out in a manner that reduces damage to the environment, most logging in large rainforests can be very destructive and harmful. Rainforests that once grew over 14 % of the land on Earth now cover only 6 %. These forests produce vital oxygen and provide homes for wildlife and humans. More than half of the Earth’s rainforests have already been lost forever due to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

Environmental groups started helping the Amazon because they realized the rainforest wasn’t as healthy and becoming smaller. Over the last forty years, twenty percent of the forest has been cleared. When trees are cleared or killed, carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere. If we keep cutting down tree after tree, the amount of carbon is going to affect climate change. Over the next few years, deforestation could draw out two hundred billion tons of

Forests cover 31% of the Earth’s surface, around 40 million square kilometres, making them a huge carbon store. They can also create long-term carbon stores as trees can live for hundreds, even thousands of years and can lock carbon dioxide into their wood for their entire lives (Lorenz et al, 2010). According to the International Panel on Climate Change, changes in forest management could offset an additional 15-20% of global emissions. Worldwide deforestation currently prevents forests from reaching their maximum storage potential as when old forests and woods are cut down, huge amounts of stored CO2 are released into the atmosphere. There are many schemes globally which have been created in order to protect existing forests and to plant new forests to act as a store. Such schemes often involve promises to plant more trees in place of ones which have been cut down, these are favoured by many large companies who need trees to produce

The rainforest is one of Earth's most valuable resources and at the destruction rate, people need to stop ignoring this problem. “Around the world, Tropical Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 80 to 90 acres each minute.”(Thompson, Heather) The rainforest is home of many living creatures and provide the world with many supplies such as, food, clean water, and housing, but soon the population of those living creatures will decrease and those supplies will be gone. People need to end deforestation globally because of the main effects it has on earth like the social, environmental, and loss of different species.

The Future of our planet is in stake? And its major cause is just cutting the trees. Does it sound silly? Maybe, but it is one of the major cause of the major problem in the world. And it is described with a term called “Deforestation”. Deforestation is the mass destruction of forests so that the land can be used for other purposes. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), it is estimated that 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest area each year corresponds to that of Panama(A country in Central America).Deforestation has important global consequences. As trees grow, forests cut carbon in the form of wood and other biomass, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (see Carbon Cycle). When forests are burned, their carbon returns to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, a potential greenhouse gas that can alter the global climate (see the greenhouse effect; global warming) and trees no longer exist to cut off more carbon. Despite the fact that the effects of the deforestation are more, The factors that causes deforestation is lot and it's not because of any individual person or any particular country. Every human in this planet have a fair part in this crisis. And it can reversed, if necessary measures are taken to avoid the deforestation in future and protect our Planet. Moreover, the change can be made by knowing the root factor which causes the problem.

Imagine life without trees. Life without trees seems unfathomable. Trees provide us with paper, timber, oxygen for us to breath, etc. Without trees, life on Earth may probably cease to exist. Trees, specifically forests, make up for thirty percent of the Earth’s land (National Geographic, 2017), while water covers seventy percent (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, 2017). Out of that thirty percent, only a mere six percent is what tropical rainforests cover (Butler, 2008). According to Butler (2008), tropical rainforests once covered over sixteen percent of the Earth, but since then, the numbers began decreasing. Tropical rainforests, precisely the Amazon rainforest, are decreasing at such alarming rates due to deforestation (Laurence, 1998). If the Amazon rainforest were to be lost, the implications imposed are its effect on local matters such as wildlife, the environment, and human life (Foley, Asner, Costa, Coe, DeFries, Gibbs,… Snyder, 2007). Although these implications are dire consequences, some actions are being taken to prevent these measures from happening.

Cutting down trees is cutting down the world’s biggest land biome of rainforests and the biodiversity in there.