All throughout the many rainforests of the world, deforestation is occuring. Forests are being cleared for farmland and roads, which will in a short amount of time be abandoned and left to rot. So, new roads, new farms will be cleared. And abandoned again. And this cycle will continue to go on, until the forests of the world are totally wiped out.
Or, until something is done about it. Which starts by people knowing the facts.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
The Effects So Far
There are many effects caused by deforestation around the world; I'll mention quite a few more throughout these page. Here, though, are just a few examples of deforestation:
● In the last hundred years, the amount of rainforests in the world has been more than halved.
● The amount of natives to the forests has drastically reduced since deforestation has begun, through means of diseases, foods becoming extinct via logging camps, and sometimes even being killed by the deforesters.
● Highways through tropical rainforests have sometimes been proposed, had areas destroyed, and then not permitted to go ahead... meaning that rainforest area has been lost pointlessly.
● When trees are destroyed, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Since trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, by removing them, not only do we lose oxygen; deforestation is a massive contributor to global warming, since, when chopped down, all the stored carbon dioxide in them is released, speeding up global warming.
Admittedly, good things can come from deforestation... but the bad effect on global warmingm the loss of native people, land, and animals far outweighs these points, and mostly is a very bad decision, considering what is lost.
Source: Rainforest Facts
Deforestation Predictions
What the rainforests have endured already via deforestation is not the worst. The more trees are cut down, the more animal habitats destroyed, the more oxygen our atmosphere loses.
There have been, recently, very high figures in the increase of rainforest deforestation. The governments are saying that they are slowing the rate at which rainforests are being made through rainforests significantly - if so, why are so many forests being chopped down?
As deforestation occurs, and the forests are destroyed, rainfall continually slows. Eventually, this will end in drought, even more species dying off, and maybe even desertification.
Rainforests once covered 14% of the world's land mass: with only 6% of the world now as rainforest land, experts assume that all of the world's forests could be gone in as soon as 40 years.
Nearly all of the remaining few native tribes of rainforests will die out... where tens of millions once lived, now only 200,000 remain, and it will not be long until all those with lifelong knowledge of the forests are dead.
So, in only 50 years, what could happen from deforestation? Our natural medicines and remedies, gone. Knowledge, gone. Oxygen and native trees, gone. Thousands upon thousands of animal species, gone. We do not want this to happen.
Sources: 'Amazon Deforestation Models' and 'Rainforest Facts'
There have been, recently, very high figures in the increase of rainforest deforestation. The governments are saying that they are slowing the rate at which rainforests are being made through rainforests significantly - if so, why are so many forests being chopped down?
As deforestation occurs, and the forests are destroyed, rainfall continually slows. Eventually, this will end in drought, even more species dying off, and maybe even desertification.
Rainforests once covered 14% of the world's land mass: with only 6% of the world now as rainforest land, experts assume that all of the world's forests could be gone in as soon as 40 years.
Nearly all of the remaining few native tribes of rainforests will die out... where tens of millions once lived, now only 200,000 remain, and it will not be long until all those with lifelong knowledge of the forests are dead.
So, in only 50 years, what could happen from deforestation? Our natural medicines and remedies, gone. Knowledge, gone. Oxygen and native trees, gone. Thousands upon thousands of animal species, gone. We do not want this to happen.
Sources: 'Amazon Deforestation Models' and 'Rainforest Facts'
Endangered Wildlife
With scientists predicting that more than half of the world's species living in tropical rainforests alone, it is essential that we predict our wildlife. If deforestation were to occur further in many parts of the world's rainforests, we would many species. Many rare animals would be lost.
In 2 acres of forest, there can be found up to 100 different species; this diversity would be lost for thousands of years at least, possibly forever, if deforestation was to destroy a large number of areas with wildlife that rich. We would lose many animals that have been naturally adapted to the forest, along with what we could learn about these animals.
And it's not only animals we would lose - the plants, obviously, would suffer just the same. With again, tens of thousands of tree types, many medicinal plants and herbs, animal habitats, oxygen provided for us... this is not something that we want to give up so easily.
Is clearing land for a farm worth entirely destroying animal species, plants, and life-saving cures?
Source: Blue Planet Biomes Rainforest Page
In 2 acres of forest, there can be found up to 100 different species; this diversity would be lost for thousands of years at least, possibly forever, if deforestation was to destroy a large number of areas with wildlife that rich. We would lose many animals that have been naturally adapted to the forest, along with what we could learn about these animals.
And it's not only animals we would lose - the plants, obviously, would suffer just the same. With again, tens of thousands of tree types, many medicinal plants and herbs, animal habitats, oxygen provided for us... this is not something that we want to give up so easily.
Is clearing land for a farm worth entirely destroying animal species, plants, and life-saving cures?
Source: Blue Planet Biomes Rainforest Page
Deforestation Problems - Summary
So, those are the basic facts of why large-scale deforestation should not be supported. Unless you want to have all forests destroyed, short-sighted builders creating farms, roads leading through nowhere, species dead, and tribes annihilated, then do not support the continuous destruction of the world's rainforests.
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