The effects of deforestation on our planet
In 100 Years, there will be no Rainforest Now, there is less than 10% left. Deforestation is when forests are converted for other purposes by cutting down the trees to clear the land for other use. With 7 billion people on the planet, we need more land to build cities, raise livestock and grow food. The loss of trees and other plant growth can cause climate change, the start of a desert, oil, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
People use wood for fuel also the soil for fossil fuels. There are 5 major rainforests that are getting cut down: Russia, Brazil, Canada, USA and more such as China. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate.
Between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 miles and 1.3 million kilometres of forest, according to Google, an area larger than South Africa. Since humans started cutting down forests, 46 percent of trees have been logged, according to a Google site that Osheya Wilkinson read. About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses recently have been on the rise.
That's because, starting in the late 1960s, Brazil began cutting down and burning forest at an alarming rate. An average of 137 species of life forms are driven into extinction every day in the world's tropical rainforests. The forces of destruction such as logging, cattle ranching have all contributed to the loss of millions of acres of tropical rain An average of 137 species of life forms are driven into extinction every day in the world's tropical rainforests.
One of the most dangerous and unsettling effects of deforestation is the loss of animal and plant species due to their loss of habitat. 70% of land animals and plant species live in forests. The trees of the rainforest that provide shelter, some species also provide the canopy that regulates the temperature. In conclusion this very bad for the environment, so we need to stop, deforestation # STOP DEFORESTATION.
By Osheya
