Deforestation

DEFORESTATION Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests and woodlands. The population requires food production; deforestation occurs as the forests are converted for agricultural uses. Deforestation has resulted in the reduction of indigenous forests to four-fifths of their pre-agricultural area. Indigenous forests now cover 21% of the earth’s land surface. In the last three decades one fifth of all tropical forests were lost. Currently at the rate in which deforestation is occurring there is great …

…to the Water cycle. Deforestation is one of the largest problems World Resources Institute is dealing with. It is so bad that every minute an area of forest equal to 20 football fields is destroyed. The best thing to do is to spread the word. No one wants to be left without a home, and if man keeps destroying we are the only one’s who will suffer in the end. When there is nothing left!