Deforestation is when humans remove a large amount of trees from forest to use as paper and many other commercial products. Deforestation effects many ecosystems and destroys them so they cannot be used by any animals again.
Forests cover about 30% of the world's land area and is home to 70% of the worlds land animals. Tropical Rain Forests alone holds 50% of the Earths wildlife and other organisms. 90% of Earth's primates live in the Rain Forest because the canopies of the trees have perfect protection and shelter for them. If the canopies are being destroyed so fast, the primates will not be able to adapt and eventually, they will die out.
11 million acres of forest per year are cut for commercial and property industries. These industries use the trees for paper inside of their products. By making paper, they are producing a lot more pollution. Farmers also cut down many trees so they may get more land. This drives many animals out of that land and forces them to find new land, or die. 
Deforestation doesn't just effect plants and animals, it also effects humans. Trees improve the air quality. Trees absorb the carbon let out by humans and pollution and turns it all into clean oxygen. According to the Rain Forest Movement, 25% of medicines, that humans use everyday, come from forests all around the world.Deforestation also causes climate change. Forests soil's are wet, but when the canopies are cut down, the soil loses its protection from the sun and it quickly dries out. This problem causes the water cycle to screw up because it has less water to evaporate and reuse. This can cause many deforest lands to become dry, lifeless desserts.
Deforestation also causes soil erosion and nutrient loss. How does this affect the possibility of any new growth?
ReplyDeleteRob out of that 25% of medicines that humans use everyday, what parts of the forest are being used in these medicines?
ReplyDeleteDeforestation and nutrient loss are not the only thing that effect forest growth. Companies must send in big machinery to cut and transport the wood. This big machinery packs down the soil, making it almost impossible for new plant growth.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rance, between the machinery and sun it makes it very hard for plant life to grow again. I'm also curious about which medicines are made from forests.
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ReplyDeleteRob, you said that deforestation destroys many ecosystems so that they cannot be used by any animals again. However, this is not the case. Secondary succession will take place once deforestation occurs. It will take many years for the ecosystem to return to its previous state, but until then, there will be a variety of different ecosystems, and animals that inhabit them, as the stages of secondary succession continue.
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I believe rance has a very god point and that there isn't anything we can do as humans to fix it
ReplyDeleteI agree with Robbie, even though they are causing deforestation now it will grow back in the future. It may take longer then we expect it to with the soil erosion and the affects humans are doing to the habitat, But they will grow back and become a successful habitat once again.
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