Deforestation should be banned
Deforestation is an issue all over the world. It harmfully affects everything in a way or other, including the ecosystem, human beings, and the animals that live in the forests. The outcomes of cutting down thousands of trees increases as human beings increase in their population, and the long-term results can be shocking as more and more species of animals become endangered. I have three reasons why deforestation should be banned.
Firstly, Deforestation cause loss of habitat for millions of species. Seventy percent of animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. Many animals that live in the forests are herbivorous, such as giraffes, deer and tapirs, they are enforced to leave what once was their home to search for food. As a result, many starve to death. Other times they wonder out into areas inhabited by humans and get injured. In the meantime, carnivorous animals that prey on herbivorous animals find it more challenging to find food and starved to death however wandering off into human-populated areas can also kill. The damage of just a very small region can therefore lead to the destruction of animal species. Very often animals that live in the forests require specialized habitats. When deforestation happens, these animals have gradually fewer areas in which they can live. Once these areas are destroyed, the species become extinct. Animals promote in balancing our ecosystem, food chain and perform as food for us. Therefore, it is really a disgrace for us to destroy their habitat. Deforestation destroys their natural homes and habitat forcing them to relocate, sometimes they try to move into inhabited area looking for food or shelter a...
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...s, also to release the water gradually into rivers. After the deforestation in a rainfall catchment area, the water moves more quickly from the land to the rivers, causing soil erosion.
In conclusion forest are important for life, home to millions of species, they protect soil from erosion, produce oxygen, store carbon dioxide, and help control climate. Forests are also vital for us to live as they provide food for us, shelter and medicines as well as many other useful things. They also clean the air we breathe and water that we need to survive. Deforestation is causing all these necessary roles need to be reduced, and damaging atmosphere even more. We need trees to provide us oxygen and if all the trees are cut down we have less oxygen. It is outrageous for our atmosphere as it pollutes our air then causes global warming. Therefore, deforestation must be banned.
Precipitation is absorbed by vegetation and some of the water is used in the soil that would eventually help plants grow and evapotranspirated (Eves 40-42). This proves that deforestation increases total water runoff. Noah Webster noticed that forests try to maintain the probability of floods and droughts; when the land becomes deforested, that factor is removed (Eves, 42). When deforestation happens, it causes a more probable chance of erosion developing in the soil. At the beginning of the article, John A. Poor, railroad advocate, spoke about the transformation of the Kenduskeag stream by saying, “[W]ith its beautiful cascades from Six Mile Falls to tide water, has shrunk to a comparative rivulet in summer time by the clearing of the forest” (Eves, 38). Moreover, in the source “The Rate and Extent of Deforestation in Watersheds of the Southwestern Amazon Basin,” it explains how the rate of deforestation determines the effects on the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. (Biggs, et al., 31). The changes can either be “transient or chronic depending on the rate of clearing” (Biggs, et al.,
The main reason deforestation happens, is because of farming. They need to clear out land in order to plant crops and vegetables. Another loss from deforestation is that many animals lose their habitat. The loss of animals habitats will lead to migration, or possibly even extinction. And when this happens this will ruin the food chains which will affect even more animals.
Deforestation is the clearing of a forest and/or cutting down of trees for human benefits such as agriculture, wood exports, etc. Deforestation is the cause of numerous environmental impacts such as habitat loss, flooding and soil erosion. It can also cause climate change, by reducing the amount of rainfall and changing the amount of sunlight reflected from Earth’s surface and increases the risk of forest . Tree growth is important for biodiversity because they absorb carbon dioxide which is a harmful greenhouse gas . However, since deforestation reduces natural carbon sinks, it disrupts the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air causing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air to increase. This poses a serious threat since carbon dioxide traps the sun’s heat and radiated light inside the earth’s atmosphere. So, with the increase in carbon dioxide more heat is trapped and thus adding to the effects of global warming. Among the many places where deforestation takes place, Amazon seems to be one of the most affected ones. More than 20 percent of it is already gone, and much more of it is severely threatened due to deforestation . It is estimated that the Amazon alone is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year .
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