The effects of deforestation on animal suffering

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Jason Vincent

The effects of deforestation on animal suffering

It is a statistical fact that every day a large amount of forest is destroyed. The main cause inflicting this destruction is without any doubts deforestation. The cutting of trees, for the consumption of man is a full time threat to the world’s natural forests along with the animal species which inhabit the area. Factual statements say that over eighty percent of the Earth’s natural forest has been destroyed due to mankind, a large number when seen in perspective. This makes one think, “how long can it last for?” The growing population demands more every day, and if up until now the depletion of woodland has been so severe, then what can we expect in the future?

It is proven that if the current rate of destruction is to continue, most countries will lose their rainforests and woodland within our lifetime. This is a critical state. It takes only a couple of minutes to cut down a tree, but takes thousands of years to grow one. Place all that data together, and you’re not likely to have much left within a hundred years. It is said that “If the world continues at the current rate of deforestation, the world's rainforests will be gone within 100 years-causing unknown effects to the global climate and the elimination of the majority of plant and animal species on the planet.”* It is due to this that measures must, at all costs, be taken. Some countries have already developed ideas, and plans to fight this, and some have gone to the extent of implementing them. Costa Rica for instance, has protected a full one quarter of its land from deforestation. Perhaps if others were to follow this example, the world would be saved from certain doom.

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If we think ahead around a hundred years, and if there are very little trees… What will be done to make up for the wood which is not being obtained? Some new substance will have to be developed. If that were done now, as a prevention, then there would be no need for such critical states to be reached.

        Most animals inhabit some sort of woodland. There is a very limited number of species who can live in the open, because that directly implies being able to sustain severe environmental conditions. These could be extreme temperatures, both high and low, ...

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