large scale deforestation should be stopped immediately. Give reasons to justify the statement.
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Keeping forests intact also helps prevent floods and drought by regulating regional rainfall. And because many indigenous and forest peoples rely on tropical forests for their livelihoods, investments in reducing deforestation provide them with the resources they need for sustainable development without deforestation.
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1. Forest loss is not decreasing. Although they still cover about 30% of the earths land area, we lose an area roughly equivalent to the size of Panama in forested land every year.
2. Forests are home to 200 million people. An additional 1.4 billion people depend directly on forest goods for their survival.
3.Biodiversity. Up to80% of terrestrial biodiversityi.e. a vast majority of all species of land plants and animalslives in forests.
4. Climate change is in partcaused by forest loss which is in partcaused by climate change which is in part caused by forest loss. Trying to pull deforestation and climate change apart won’t work.Trees, forest plants, and forest soils store huge amounts of carbon.
5. Forests provide irreplaceable ecosystem, cultural, and economic functions, some of which we know, others we havent even discovered yet. In addition to storing all that carbon (and exchanging CO2 for the oxygen we breathe)..