WORLD ISSUE

Cutting trees NAME: LUQMAN NUL HAKIM

widely is BIN HAIRIZAM

NO. MATRIC: 221533746

affecting the NAME: MUHAMMAD AL-

ADAM BIN AL-PAREBI
NO. MATRIC: 221533747

ecosystem
ARTICLE 1
How Does Cutting Down Trees
Affect Us And Our Environment?
https://treeamigos.com.au/how-
does-cutting-down-trees-affect-
us-and-our-environment/
ARTICLE 2
Why deforestation matters—and
what we can do to stop it
https://www.nationalgeographic.co
m/environment/article/deforestation

HOW DOES CUTTING

DOWN TREES AFFECT US
AND OUR ENVIRONMENT?

WHAT IS DEFORESTATION? WHY ARE FORESTS SO WHY DO FORESTS NEED OUR

Clearing land of trees, IMPORTANT? PROTECTION AND HELP?
cutting them down, or The Amazonian Every second, an area of
removing them in any rainforest is forest that is equivalent to
other way, whether by responsible for the one football pitch is
human hand, by nature, production of destroyed. The World
or by accident, is the twenty percent of Wildlife Fund (WWF)
definition of the oxygen that we estimates that
deforestation. breathe in, and they approximately 8 million
take up thirty hectares of forest are lost
percent of the land every year. As a
surface on the consequence, 17 percent of
entire earth. They the Amazonian forest has
are essential to the been destroyed over the
quality of the air course of the last 50 years,
that we breathe. along with other forestal
areas like Indonesia or
Congo.
Why deforestation matters
and what we can do to stop it

CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION WHY IT MATTERS WHAT CAN BE DONE

Forests still cover about 30
percent of the world’s land
area, but they are
disappearing at an alarming
rate. Since 1990, the world
has lost more than 420
million hectares or about a
billion acres of forest,
according to the Food and
Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations—mainly
in Africa and South
America.
Eighty percent of Earth’s
land animals and plants live
in forests, and deforestation
threatens species including
the orangutan, Sumatran
tiger, and many species of
birds. Removing trees
deprives the forest of
portions of its canopy,
which blocks the sun’s rays
during the day and retains
heat at night.
Stopping deforestation
before it reaches a critical
point will play a key role in
avoiding the next zoonotic
pandemic. A November
2022 study showed that
when bats struggle to find
suitable habitat, they travel
closer to human
communities where
diseases are more likely to
spillover.

CONCLUSION
Extensive deforestation has profound and detrimental effects on
ecosystems, leading to environmental degradation, loss of
biodiversity, disturbed ecological balance, and increased vulnerability
to climate change. In addition, forest products will cause the
temperature to rise and cause global warming. In addition, the habitat
that sits in the forest will be affected and will experience extinction if
not stopped.