What are the advantages of forest and what are the problems we face due to deforestation?
The world’s forests are the natural regulators of carbon dioxide. On cutting down the forest increasingly, it gives the way of less absorption of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A result of unregulated deforestation, rivers become choked with sediment degrading the aquatic environment, the heavy seasonal rain of the monsoon forest poses a great danger, generating rapid runoff, mudflows, and flash flooding. Deforestation and habitat destruction is severely crippling the rain forest ecosystem with habitat destruction comes loss of species. Deforestation causes a multitude of effects on the natural environment as shown below. Vegetation is degraded due to a loss of nutrient-rich litter and microorganisms to decompose organic matter. The loss of shade accelerates leaching, soil erosion and drying. The hard surface caused by baking impedes water infiltration causing excess runoff and flooding. In addition to the effect on the local vegetation and hydrology, forest removal impacts atmosphe
