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'