What are the affects of deforestation in the environment
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Deforestation have a lot of negative impacts on the environment.
The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species cause most of the animal as well as plants have forest as their shelters..
It also triggers climatic changes...
Deforestation decreases the amount of trees and hence this leads to increase in CO2 level in atmosphere which in turns leads to global warming...
Plants hold the soil layers through their roots so decrease in plants leads to soil erosion...
Forest is an important part of the earth’s water cycle. Rain water that falls on forests is recycled by the trees back into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. Also, the rough surface of the forest canopy stimulates convection and local rainfall. Deforestation would alter the rainfall pattern...
Urban forests improve the human habitats in many ways; they filter air, water, sunlight, provide shelter to animals and recreational area for people, and moderate the urban heat island effect. Clearing urban forests would eliminate these benefits.
And many more reasons...
1. deforestation can lead to climatic changes as less trees means less consumption of carbon dioxide which can lead to global warming.
2. due to deforestation the things of basic needs to human beings becomes less and they're not able to fulfill their needs.
3. trees hold the soil due to less trees the soil erosion is more.