Ignacio Agramonte | 2
According to United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization; an estimated 18 million acres of forest are lost each year worldwide. (The size of the country of Panama!)
Deforestation is the permanent removal of forests to make land available.
Deforestation is a concerning worldwide problem; that is why its causes, effects and solutions will be revealed.
· Deforestation is caused by an extensive list of elements
The leading factor of deforestation is Agricultural Activities, such as; unmeetable demand for food and chopping trees down to grow crops.
Auxiliary, pollution would be the second biggest factor that affects deforestation, since it causes contamination to land, water, and air.
Urbanization, which is caused mainly by overpopulation joined by logging; mining and forest fires are the accessory factors that affect deforestation.
· Agricultural activities, pollution and urbanization are the main causing factors of deforestation; they have an immense effect on earth and its living organisms.
According to the World Bank; in the past fifty years the world has seen the lost of forest area equivalent to the area of the country of South Africa and a lost of seventeen percent of the Amazonian rainforest.
With over 250million people and eighty percent of the worlds flora and fauna living in rainforests, deforestation most definitely affects the whole world.
These information raises awareness towards the real effect’s...