Tropical+rainforest+Human+Impacts

=Human Impacts on Tropical Rainforests= As the world becomes an increasingly more economically geared place, companies find it essential to continue expanding development into previously unused lands in order to profit more. This desire for commercial expansion has resulted in the deforestation of many tropical rainforests, for both home building and the timber industry [ I1 ]. This results in the loss of about 2% of our rainforests every year [ I2 ]. There is also irony in the fact that mankind is trying to improve on it ecological efficiency and improve the environment by creating hydroelectric dams but through this they actually harm the environment [ I3 ]. No only do activities like this kill about 137 animal species per day, but we have lost about 40% of the world’s carbon [ I4 ]. Lastly, due to activities such as oil extraction, mining, farming and construction, we have left plants with only 20% nutrient density [ I1 ]. The human impact on rainforests to date is most likely irreversible and only continues to deplete as human greed grows.



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