Deforestation

Deforestation is cutting down of trees.Deforestation includes the conversion of natural forests into tree plantations, like the clearance of tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia for oil palm and timber plantations.Cutting of trees has seriously affected the quality of environment by increasing the temperature, decreasing rainfall,top soil erosion,loss of biodiversity and also causes flash floods.Trees play a very important role in maintaining the environmental role.

Forests provide more than a home for a diverse collection of living things; they are also an important resource for many around the world.Trees also absorb carbon dioxide, mitigating green house gas  emissions produced by human activity.Deforestation not only removes vegetation that is important for removing carbon dioxide from the air.

The long term effects of deforestation are climate change and loss of biodiversity.Climate change occurs due to an increase of green house gases such as carbon dioxide.An increase in carbondioxide will increase the temperature of the earth and will therefore alter the weather.

Deforestation ruins the habitat of the animals and plants causing them to die.Destruction of forest affect the beauty of an area and directly exerts an impact on tourism.

Fast depletion of forests urges rural people to use inferior quality firewood and make them spend more time on fuel collection.Shortage of forests also force the villgers to use more commercial fertilizer in place of manures.Fodder for grazing cattle diminishes resulting in decreasing number of live stock.

Loss of green cover leads to soil erosion.Landslides occur due to cutting of trees in hill stations.

“REVERSING DEFORESTATION MAY BE COMPLICATED,BUT PLANTING OF TREES IS VERY SIMPLE”