DEFORESTATION - MEANING, FACTS, CAUSES & EFFECTS
WHAT IS DEFORESTATION ?
Deforestation means cutting down the trees to a large extent for logging, making building, houses and furniture and also for using as a fuel etc. our generations destroy the earth in many ways, and at a massive speed. one example of large-scale damage is the destruction of the world's forests. deforestation can be caused with accidental loss of trees due to wildfires- a forest the size of two football fields vanishes every minute.
10 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT DEFORESTATION
1 Forest cover 30 % of earths's land
2 Within a 100 years there will be no rainforests
3 3.5 to 7 billion trees are cut down every year.
4 20% of oxygen is produced by amazon forest.
5 25% of cancer fighting organism are found in amazon.
6 up to 28,000 species will become extinct in 25 years.
7 Poverty overpopulation are main cause of deforestation.
8 Soil erosion, floods wild life extinction increase in global warming are due to deforestation.
9 The united state has less than 5% worlds population but uses of 30% of worlds paper. and paper is obtained from wood.
10 Loss of forests contributes 12 percent and 17 percent of annual global greenhouse gas amissions.
DEFORESTATION - CAUSES & EFFECTS
1 Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forest in order to make the land available for other uses.
2 Natural forests are being destructed to use the land for cultivation, building houses, factories,logging, making space for cattle grazing, extraction of oil, mining, construction of dams or to obtain wood for making furniture and using it as fuel.
3 Wood-based industries like paper, match-stick, furniture needs a substantial amount of wood supply.
4 The conversion of forests into agriculture land is a big reason for deforestation.
5 Oil and mining of coal require a large amount of forest land. construction of roads to deforestation as they provide the way to remote land.
6 We lose a large number of trees each year due to fires in the forest in various portions worldwide.
DEFORESTATION - EFFECTS
1 Greenhouse gas emissions gases such as methane and carbon dioxide trap heat in earth's atmosphere, leading change in climate.
2 Soil erosion cutting down on trees leads to clearance of forests and so soil erosion occurs.
3 Loss of nutrients Exposure of the soil to sun's heat dries up the moisture inside the soil.
4 Deforestation alters land and so that many of the plans and animals do not survive.
5 Deforestation leads to land erosion because the trees maintain the surface of the mountains.
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