importance of deforestation in English
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Advantage
1.many people get their livelihood.
2. Farmers get land for cultivation
3. Moreover, trees from forest is used to make furniture home etc
Disadvantage
1.it disturb water cycle
2.it affects flood and fire.
3. It destroys the habitat of animals
Deforestation is the long-term removal of trees from an area because of changes in land use, it can also happen by natural processes such as fires, disease and storms.
The need for wood and land has increased, as a result so has deforestation.
It is quite difficult to calculate how much forest is actually destroyed each year but approximations can be drawn.
During the 1980’s it was estimated by “The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)” that tens of thousands of tropical forests were destroyed – 53000 to be precise. Form this estimation it is possible to say that an area great enough to cover North Carolina is cut down every year
(1). The size of twenty football fields is lost in forest every sixty seconds
(2). However deforestation does have advantages as well as disadvantages; these have various impacts on the planet we live on.
One of the main causes and advantages of deforestation is the ability to use the forests as raw material for furniture, paper, construction and fuel in the less developed countries
(3). The forests are probably the main sources of our wood supplies and have been for a long time. Land is also cleared for agricultural uses; raising crops and grazing for animals, mainly cattle. This is essential for many people in less developed countries. Medicines have also been found in the forests, and have been a great provider of such for a long time. By clearing the forests we are able to find such products. From the forests 25% of medicines we use are obtained, according to the World Rainforest Movement
(4). The trees trap particles such as carbon which are created through pollution.
(5)They are trapped by a process called photosynthesis.