Deforestation: causes and effects to environment / Mohd Rizal Sulaiman

During the last century another culture has entered the forest: a culture driven by pernicious cycle of growth and expansion. Natural checks against over-exploitation have been confounded because those who are now consuming the products of the forest are not those who experience the immediate effects of its degradation. The example of causes the forest degradation is logging, dam construction and others. There are millions, who do, however, and it is now understood that in the short term the disappearance of rainforests will threaten the lives of over one billion people, as their water resources dry up and their land turns to dust. Many of these people actually live in the forests themselves and are utterly dependent on them. In the longer term this destruction may change the world's climate and therefore the history of the planet.