|
|
People have been destroying the rainforests for a long time. They don�t realize the importance of it. Actually, rainforest means a land of green where animals and trees live in peace. Rainforests are very peaceful places where lots of green trees and vines hang for the animals to jump around. It provides them with a place where they can hunt for food. There are four rainforests located, close to the equator. They are in America, Australia, Asia and Africa. America�s rainforest is located in the northern part of the Caribbean Sea. Australia�s, Africa�s and Asia�s rainforest are located at the Southern part of them. There are no rainforest at the North Pole or the South Pole. Our rainforests provides us with trees that in turn give us medicine, food and fresh air. Now, people are bringing disaster to the rainforest.
They cut down trees for wood and destroy the habitat of animals that live there. When lumberjacks come to the forest to cut down the forest trees, the tree falls on the other tree and they break down. This can even cause the homes of the animals to break down. That�s how they become endangered. We have to also be aware of the importance of the rainforest, because it effects global warming. How can it effect? Well, there will be less rain. It will be dry and hot. If the rainforest are gone then we won�t be able to breathe fresh air and polution will increase. Deforestation is the destruction of the rainforest which can cause a major global problem to the earth. The significance of the rainforest is, it gives us food, medicine and fresh air and deforestation can effect the environment by causing pollution and change of climate.
Rainforests are very important to us. There are a lot of life cycles in the rainforest. For example, the life cycle of trees, that can help animals to survive, by providing food. For instance, nutrients come from trees. There are lots of birds on trees. Animals come and eat them. Flowers come from the trees. The insect sucks the nectar from the flower. While the insects do that, animals come and eat them. Flowers produces fruit and animals eat the fruit. That�s how they survive in the rainforest but, some foods are poisonous for the animals.
Some diseases can come from the rainforest. For example, Malaria which is a tropical disease that spreads by itself by mosquitoes. The first treatment to cure Malaria was Quinine. It came from a bark of the Cinchona tree in South America. Animals can die from these diseases. Some trees in the rainforest have medicinal values for people to survive these diseases. It cures a lot of people. If we didn�t have the rainforest, there will be no diseases, but there are more medicine values then diseases. People will start to suffer and they may die.
Trees give animals their homes (trees). Animals love the rainforest because it is a peaceful place with no fear. However, now that people are destroying it and many animals are becoming endangered or extinct. If the people are bringing disaster to the rainforest, the animals that live there will become threatened. This concerns the scientist because the animals will die, them ever having a chance to identify them.
Deforestation refers to the destruction of the rainforest. It can cause major global problems to the earth. For instance, climate is also important to us because it affects global warming. Global warming is the increase of temperature around the world because of pollution. If we didn�t have rainforests, we wouldn�t have any climate. Everything would be dry and hot. There would be less rain and if there is less rain, there isn�t enough water for trees to survive. If there aren�t any trees, animals will die. This is why, climate is so important to us. Rainforests can keep the water cycle running. The water evaporates from trees, plants and oceans. They would form a cloud in the sky which comes down in the form of rain. If there was no global warming, there wouldn�t be a water cycle. Animals will start to die because there is no fresh air, and water for them and they have no trees (homes) to live in.
Oxygen is also important to the earth because it gives us fresh air to breathe. The rainforest absorbs a large amount of carbon dioxide. If we didn�t have rainforests, then we wouldn�t have any fresh air to breathe and our world would never exist. Oxygen is also important for animals. If the whole world is polluted, then all animals and people would die. Rainforest helps to balance the oxygen and carbon dioxide in nature.
Destruction of the rainforest has increased too. This happens because the lumber jacks come, log for wood. They cut down trees for firewood and cause pollution to the environment. How can they cause pollution? Well, when they burn the wood, all the smoke goes into the air and causes pollution. They cut down trees and then the soil gets washed away. 50% of the rainforest in the world have been destroyed (Barbara 99). 2,400 trees are cut down every hour by the lumber jacks for more wood (Jen 98). Once the rainforest is destroyed it will not grow again in the future generation. It will be lost forever. Some people just don�t care about it.
|
Tags
You must be logged in to add tags.
|
Writer Profile
Let's Roll
This user has not written anything in his panorama profile yet.
|
Comments
Interested? Pierre Andipatin | Oct 23rd, 2003
Hi the pooja,
great article...would you be interested in finding out more about the United Nations Forum on Forests...We would ove to share with you!
Pierre Andipatin
Youth/Children Major Group UNFF
Alice | Nov 4th, 2003
I've always been an animal and nature lover, and the way that humans destroy such an important piece of the world disgusts me. It's hard to think how humans can become so selfish when it comes to the environment. But it's true, some people do really care, but there's not something that they can do to really stop this. Or, its not such a big issue to them because they might think that they live so far away from a rainforest that it may hardly affect them. But this issue will probably affect people, and if not now, in the future. There may be different cures for diseases, new spieces of plants and animals, and other mysteries to be found. But everything will be lost forever if careless people keep neglecting it. The rainforests are like giant jigsaw puzzle pieces, and without them, the Earth would be missing something. It would be missing something important, something beautiful, and something that will be in our thoughts forever.
vishu sibal | Nov 6th, 2003
I have always had a hting for animals, especially the tiger and the wolf. Go to...http://extinctanimal.com for an amazing list of endangered animals and extinct ones too. The reason animals become endangered is because of us humans. We like to cut down forests and build structures for our pleasure, never thinking twice about who and what this may be affecting. There is only one way to stop this and that is to stop cutting down forests mindlessly, plant seeds where you can and hope they don't get cut down in the future to come. The planet we live on it gets its green from the plants, the trees, and everything natural. If we get rid of it then we are no better than space aliens form mars who are trying to take over my body at night, but that is another story.Why should we cut down things that came before we did and ruin the homes of animals that have had ancestors from the beggining of time for oursleves? Can anyone answer this question?
Katherine | Nov 6th, 2003
I think that helping to preserve the rainforests is a great idea. I also agree that we should use our resources more wisely. Clear cutting is the dumbest thing people can do. What are we going to do once all the trees are gone? Will we just wait until we run out of breathable air? The people in power need to open their eyes and see that our trees won't be around forever. The problem is that they don't really care, and unless the topic helps them stay in power, they won't ever care until it's too late. I'm not saying that it's bad to use wood. I'm just saying that when we cut down trees, we should only cut down some of them. As was said in the article, we can do our part in saving the enviroment by recycling paper and pop cans etc. Trees don't replenish themselves very quickly so we have to be careful with what we do to our environment.
Katherine | Nov 6th, 2003
I think that helping to preserve the rainforests is a great idea. I also agree that we should use our resources more wisely. Clear cutting is the dumbest thing people can do. What are we going to do once all the trees are gone? Will we just wait until we run out of breathable air? The people in power need to open their eyes and see that our trees won't be around forever. The problem is that they don't really care, and unless the topic helps them stay in power, they won't ever care until it's too late. I'm not saying that it's bad to use wood. I'm just saying that when we cut down trees, we should only cut down some of them. As was said in the article, we can do our part in saving the enviroment by recycling paper and pop cans etc. Trees don't replenish themselves very quickly so we have to be careful with what we do to our environment.
Rainforests Robert Dart | Aug 3rd, 2009
Hey great article. In Australia there is an environmental organisation actually buying back land that is currently for sale in the Daintree Rainforest and is declaring each property a nature refuge! They are called Rainforest Rescue, have Environmentalist David Suzuki as a patron and have brought 12 properties to date which are now legally protected from development forever. This organisation has links to similar rainforest groups in Indonesia, Eduador and Sri Lanka as well as in other parts of Australia.
Congratulations on a great article.
polution SEAN | May 23rd, 2010
aliens are trying to destroy the north pole with polution
You must be a TakingITGlobal member to post a comment. Sign up for free or login.
|
|
