10 Deforestation Facts

 Forests are the reason why the ecological balance is still present. Had there been no forests, they would have been no proper atmosphere of the earth. Forest regulates the temperature and makes the rain to fall. But sadly, the biggest blessing is been cut to make plain fields for cultivation or for commercial use. This is the biggest enmity people are doing to the people of earth.

1. Wiping the forests

The earth’s 30 percent area is still covered by the forests. It was a larger area before. Every year thousands of trees are cut for any reason either to get the wood or to make the land ready for cultivation. The re-plantation ration is very slow.

2. Degrading the earth’s quality

The cutting of forest is not only harming the atmosphere but the land which is left after cutting the trees is also degrading with the passage of time. The earth become barren land and become useless. No plant can grow on it once it is freed from its natural friends.

3. Reasons of cutting trees

There are several reasons of tree cutting. The biggest reason is the cultivation. Farmers clear land to provide more room to their fields and to get more money for their family. The other reason is the use of the land for commercial purposes. Whatever the reason is, money is the outcome of deforestation.

4. Logging

The other reason for cutting the forests is the logging process. World needs wood for making products like furniture, paper etc. so loggers cut countless trees and most of them do this illegally, they cut trees more than they are permitted to.

5. Natural deforestation

Yes, forests can also be destroyed due to natural causes. Wildfire due to extreme heat destroys thousands of trees and damages the land too. Floods also damage the land and destroy the trees.

6. Disturbing the habitat

70 percent of the animals and plants are the habitants of forests. So, cutting forests down mean snatching the home from animals. This is another very negative impact of the deforestation. As those animals cannot survive in the outer atmosphere, it means the species will go extinct if deforestation remains this rampant.

7. Barren lands

The soil of the forests is moist because the land is covered by the shadow of the trees. Also the trees maintain the water cycle by bouncing back the water vapors.

8. Temperature rising

The worst thing that is happening to the world after the mass deforestation is the rising temperature of the earth.  Trees are the natural canopy when they are cut down the system vanishes.

9. Plantation

The solution of this dangerous problem is to avoid cutting trees. This should be done by imposing strict laws on govt. levels. It has been seen that most of the time trees are cut illegally. Many a time contractors cut extra trees to meet their customers’ demands.

10. Moral responsibility

Above all the solutions, the best is to feel it the individual responsibility to feel for the safety f the earth we are living in. laws are made and even followed, but only in words not in spirit. There are many NGOs and even corporate sector has adopted this as its responsibility to not harm the environment and to do plantation.