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Eassy On Deforestation

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Deforestation is a commonly known environmental issue across our world today, yet still has a long posed threat to our earth. Deforestation is a permanent process of humans removing a forest or stand of trees where the land is later converted to a non-forest use. The forest covers over 30% of our planets land, and the ecosystems they create are essential for life. Not not only do forests produce vital oxygen but provides homes and shelter for people and wildlife. Forests provide a habitat for over 80% of the animals living on land and even for a large majority of humans, who rely on rainforests for their daily food. In addition they provide protection from flooding and sandstorms. But, deforestation is utterly diminishing them, at an extremely fast rate. It is estimated that 4 to 6,000 rainforest species go extinct each year.

Deforestation occurs in different places around the world, tropical rainforests however are the most common and targeted areas. The tropical forests are forests that span both sides of the Equator and they are the most. They are the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Brazil has the highest rate in the world, since 1970 over 600,000 square kilometres of the Amazon Rainforest has been destroyed. At the current rate of destruction, 100 years from now our forests could completely disappear. In the Amazon for example, around 20% of the forests have been completely destroyed in the last 50 years, only due to forest conversion for cattle ranching.
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