what happen if we fail to protect rain forest and old growth forest
what happen if we fail to protect rain forest and old growth forest
The old growth forest and tropical rainforests are highly valuable from ecological point of view.
Trees and plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and release oxygen which is essential for human and many other organisms survival.
The reduction in number of plants and trees results in less CO2 removed from the atmosphere for photosynthesis. Thus, deforestation leads to more CO2 in the atmosphere which is a greenhouse gas causes global warming.
When cut down trees and plants are burned or may be allowed to decay by fungi and bacteria. In such conditions, their stored carbon is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes global warming.
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