Tropical Deforestation

The clearing of tropical forests has been occurring worldwide on a large-scale basis for many centuries. This process, known as deforestation, involves the cutting down, burning, and damaging of forests. The loss of tropical rain forest is more profound than merely destruction of beautiful areas. If the current rate of deforestation continues, the world's rain forests will vanish within 100 years-causing unknown effects on global climate and eliminating the majority of plant and animal species on …

…out of the soil and thus making it desert like. Nothing is able to grow. Therefore the Antarctic can technically be called a desert. Although deforestation mainly affects plant life it does have a substantial effect on wildlife too. By cutting down trees and plants many species become extinct cause less diversity of species so fewer 'new animals' can be bred. This would theoretically mean that Darwin's theory of evolution is being compromised by deforestation.