Why are people deforesting areas?

People are deforesting areas to create more room for things like farms and houses. After the area of trees and other plants are removed they use the area to raise cows and to plant crops. As of the wood, the wood would be sent to a factory to be made into different resources like paper and cardboard. The wood would also be used to make frames for houses.

What happens to an area after deforestation?

After an area is deforested the water from rain and other water sources would be by the soil. When this happens the salt would build up and the effect of this would be any crops, plants, and grass would stop growing in the area and it would create a desert like area. This effect is known as Desertification. …show more content…
There are many impacts from deforestation. One impact is greenhouse gas emissions increase. Meaning carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions rise. Carbon dioxide levels increase when trees are removed that is because trees when they are alive produce clean air and when that is taking away carbon dioxide would rise. These greenhouse gas emissions affect the weather, water, and rising temperatures, sometimes even extreme weather conditions.

Another example is when water cycles are unbalance. Trees keep the water on land and in the air (atmosphere). But when trees are removed the balance between the two are not equal. When this happens it could have changes in river flow and many other things.

Also when an area of trees are removed so are the homes of many animals including black howler monkeys, poison dart frogs, toucans, blue morpho butterfly and many other species have been taking away and now all these animals are starving and looking for homes in unknown areas

How do they deforest areas?

There are many ways to deforest an area. Sometimes the area has been logged which is when an area of trees has been cut, skid and loaded onto a truck and sent to wood to sawmill or a lumber yard. Other times the area hasn’t been cut at all but burnt down. When the fire ends the area is completely burnt down and a whole forest is