Deforestation

Deforestation is when people "cut down trees", or we can say that remove a large area of the forest land for many purpose: selling wood, fuel, selling land and for farming. The negative thing about this is they never re-plant the trees that they cut of.

Let's talk a little bit more about the cause of deforestation. Nowadays, the world population are getting larger. Humans need more space to live, so the first main reasons more people to clear out the forest is for Urbanization. With trees being cut down, we now can construct more buildings, roads,... And as the population grows, human also need more food and it leads to the second cause of deforestation: Agricultural Activities. Agricultural Activities is another main causes of deforestation. They are being cut down for space to grow crops and raise cattle.

In the 21st century, technology improve a lot and people require more than just space and food. Trees are cut down for woods. Woods produce goods like paper, interiors, wood can be use as fuel such as firewood for charcoal. And because of that, we can tell that Logging is one of the reason for deforestation. Human also need oil and coal in their life and that require a lot of forest space for mining. Therefore, Mining can be another cause of deforestation. One of the global issue we have today is Global Warming and it can cause forest fire. Lots of trees are lost after the fire which can lead to deforestation.


With the lost of trees, what is the bad effect for us. Here are a list of effects of deforestation.

- Imbalance Climate: Trees provide water vapor in the air, trees also provide the shade that are needed for the soil to be kept moist. Lacks of trees mean lack of all of the benefits above and this leads to the imbalance of the atmosphere and the temperature.

- Increasing of Global Warming: Trees also utilize the greenhouse gases. With the lack of trees, the amount of greenhouse gases in the air are increased and the Global Warming as well.

- Floods: The tree's roots absorb a large amount water from the rain. Lacks of trees means there are no place for storing the water and easy to cause floods.

- Wildlife Extinction: With more trees being cut down, some animal will lose their habitats and have to move to other places. This is one the cause of animal extinction. We also lost some of the plant by deforestation.


And for me, the solution to this is applying strict rule of forest pioneering. Moreover, we also need to re-plant the tree that we lost for the need of people. Planting new trees is one of the activities that Grade 11 do in the field trip.