Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Deforestation - One of the biggest ecological problems

Forests, especially rainforests are not only home to many unique animals and plants but they also protect us from stronger global warming impact by absorbing carbon dioxide from atmosphere. Deforestation has become big problem around the globe because many forests are being cleared to make room for new farms, and less trees means more impact to global warming and climate change. Not only this, deforestation is also responsible for about 20% of total CO2 emissions from human activities. To save our planet we definitely need to save our forests.

Current rates of deforestation are alarming in many parts of the world, and if this trend continues many forests and rainforests will vanish by the end of this century. Millions hectares of forests are being cleared annually, and deforestation is with no doubt one of the biggest ecological problems world is facing today. Rainforests have the richest biodiversity on our planet, but if current rates of deforestation continue many animals and plants will perish from existence. Just imagine, in less than 100 years we could destroy what nature was developing for millions of years. What an irony this would be...

The problem of climate change is also connected with forests and deforestation. Deforestation is responsible for 20% of total CO2 emissions, and if world really plans to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation will have to be stopped immediately. Forests have natural ability to act as a carbon sink and can slow down increase of CO2 emission into the atmosphere which can be our strong weapon against global warming. The more forests remain the stronger we are in fight against global warming.

Sadly, many people around the world are still unaware of how important forests really are despite the climate change problem knocking on our door. Many people still do not care whether we'll protect our forests and stop deforestation or not. Public awareness is still not on sufficient level, and this has to change as soon as possible. World needs to hear sad truth about our forests and do everything to stop deforestation. Without our forests, our defense against global warming and climate change will be completely broken. It is really time to wake up from this nightmare, and do everything that is in our power to secure sweet dreams for our future generations.

This video below will give you other additional facts and statistics about the sad reality of deforestation.


9 comments:

  1. I THINK ITS SAD WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FOREST AND ITS ANIMALS

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  2. they should really limit factories in making less tree-cutting projects.

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  3. i know, its sad that there are some people in this world that are so corupt, that they would continue letting this happen, and even helping it along by buying the wood products.

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  4. that is sick! deforestation needs to come to an end! we need to save the animals, the plants and ourselves! global warming is NOT A MYTH it is as real as you and me, and it will be the end of us all if we don't stop it.

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  5. This is happening in Madagascar. The deforestation is killing those cute little Lemurs :(

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  6. Why does not NATO and other top World organizations work to do something about this situation for this will effect every human on the planet earth.

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  7. this is very good, information helped me alot thankyou

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  8. Look at it from the peoples point of view some use cutting down trees and burning them to create soil for crops so there family can survive.

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  9. Thank you for this information, it really helped. This is extremely sad to me, I really do hope we all step it up and tale charge of this problem..

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