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Introduction
Have you ever wondered what happens outside of the places we live, What happens to the animals that live in rainforests or in the wilderness? I do, today I'm going to tell you about how deforestation is making animals die. Major causes of deforestation are, people destroying animals' homes, agriculture expansion and logging.
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The First main reason for deforestation is agriculture expansions. Because of the increase in global demand for certain products like palm oil and soybeans producers have to clear forests at an alarming rate. In the past 40 years, at least 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. 3.5-7 billion trees are cut down each year for Agriculture, imagine you’re seeing millions of football fields that are filled with trees that's probably how many trees that are cut down. If all the trees in the world were cut down it would affect us because trees give us oxygen and without oxygen, we won't be able to survive. The human race could die out and of course, we don't want that to happen. Just think about what would happen to YOU if all the trees were cut down
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Another cause for deforestation is that it destroys animals' homes. Some animals that have lost their homes already are some tropical birds are toucans and the harpy eagle. Mammals like gorillas, jaguars and pumas. The golden frog, the Madagascar day gecko and iguanas, as well as several species of poison dart frogs. Some extinct animals or animals that are now in captivity are the Formosan Clouded Leopard, Spix’s Macaw, Mount Glorious Torrent Frog, and the Cryptic Treehunter. Things we can do to save animals are: we can save endangered species by breeding more of them and saving their environment; caring for animals and curing them and taking care of animals who can no longer live in the wild and breed more of those animals. Think about all those poor animals whose lives are in grave danger. Imagine you were an animal who was experiencing this and people were taking your home away from you how would you feel? terrible right no one would want that to happen so I firmly believe this shouldn’t happen to animals.
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Logging
In order to build homes, produce paper and build cities a large portion of our forest is cut down. As the global population increases more houses are being built which means more trees are cut down this will go on and on so there will be fewer trees left. Illegal logging occurs in all types of forests across all continents from Brazil to Indonesia Illegally harvested wood is used in major consumption markets, such as the U.S., and European Union. Just think about it if every country had a million boxes of paper and for each box of paper one tree would have to be cut down that would be around 195 million trees !!! Isn’t that just sad?
Conclusion
‘Forests are the worlds air conditioning system -the lungs of our planet-and were on the verge of switching it off’ is a quote that was once said by Prince Charles and I definitely agree at the current rate we are really close to having no forests. SO TAKE ACTION NOW AND SAVE OUR PLANET !!!!!!!
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