Depletion: The Cause And Effects Of Deforestation Throughout The World

On earth, the forest takes up 31 percent. “ Some 46-58 thousand square miles of forest are lost each year this is equivalent to 48 football fields every minute(WWF).” Over time most of the forests that exist are getting smaller and smaller every day. Once these forests are gone, they will be gone forever. Deforestation is becoming a major problem throughout the world. When comes deforestations comes with organisms losing their ecosystem, the fast depletion of the natural resources,the imbalance of the climate and global warming increasing. Clearing the trees is not only bad for the environment, but it is contributing to the extinction of animals. “Tropical rainforests are, with coral reefs, the most endangered ecosystems in the world, and are vulnerable to a substantial loss of biodiversity. Deforestation depletes biodiversity by destroying habitat, by separating contiguous areas of rainforest from each other, by interfering with plant reproduction” (Rainforest Conservation Fund). “Animals dependent upon trees or other vegetation for food, shelter, water, and breeding sites also

“By 1995, 4– 5 per cent of this primary forest had been converted to secondary forest. Some argue that the rate of deforestation and degradation has accelerated since that time (Shearman et al. 2008), while others think it has continued at the same rate (Filer et al. 2009)” (Hilson). At this rate deforestation will wipe of some of the main forests like the tropical rainforest in Brazil. The resource that are being used are not being replaced as fast as they are being used. If the people do not put trees back when they cut them down then there will not be anything left for the people of the future because there is nothing there. One thing that is need for humans to survive is natural resources. One of the biggest things that deforestation has affected is climate