How does deforestation affect animals life?

Deforestation can lead to a direct loss of wildlife habitat as well as a general degradation of their habitat. The removal of trees and other types of vegetation reduces available food, shelter, and breeding habitat. Animals may not be able to find adequate shelter, water, and food to survive within remaining habitat.

What is the leading cause of global warming?

Humans are increasingly influencing the climate and the earth’s temperature by burning fossil fuels, cutting down rainforests and farming livestock. This adds enormous amounts of greenhouse gases to those naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming.

What are the effects of forest destruction?

The loss of trees and other vegetation can cause climate change, desertification, soil erosion, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and a host of problems for indigenous people.

What happens to animals when their habitat is destroyed?

When a habitat is destroyed, the carrying capacity for indigenous plants, animals, and other organisms is reduced so that populations decline, sometimes up to the level of extinction. Habitat loss is perhaps the greatest threat to organisms and biodiversity.

How do trees impact humans?

But urban trees do more; they provide benefits that are called ecosystem services, which include the obvious ones such as cooling the air, and other, less noticeable ones, such as providing oxygen, intercepting ultraviolet (UV) light, absorbing rainfall, storing carbon, and reducing air pollution.

How does deforestation affect the air?

Due to deforestation there are fewer trees to “clean” the air. Using light, water and carbon dioxide, a plant produces energy in the form of sugar and releases oxygen into the air. Deforestation, as well as a rise in the emissions and our global temperature, affects the air that we breathe.