why are forest important for us? 5 mark questions
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forests are important for breathing
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They provide ecosystem services that are critical to human welfare. These include:
Absorbing harmful greenhouse gasses that produce climate change. In tropical forests alone, a quarter of a trillion tons of carbon is stored in above and below ground biomassProviding clean water for drinking, bathing, and other household needsProtecting watersheds and reducing or slowing the amount of erosion and chemicals that reach waterwaysProviding food and medicineServing as a buffer in natural disasters like flood and rainfallsProviding habitat to more than half of the world’s land-based species
Absorbing harmful greenhouse gasses that produce climate change. In tropical forests alone, a quarter of a trillion tons of carbon is stored in above and below ground biomassProviding clean water for drinking, bathing, and other household needsProtecting watersheds and reducing or slowing the amount of erosion and chemicals that reach waterwaysProviding food and medicineServing as a buffer in natural disasters like flood and rainfallsProviding habitat to more than half of the world’s land-based species
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