Humans are currently responsible for all the rapid loss of trees. More than 50 percent of the tree cover has disappeared overtime due to human activity. The trees are used for many different things like for paper, wood and other urban purposes. The land where they once stood is used to plant other things or to graze cattle. Trees are also cut down for fuel purposes, in order to make fire wood, and charcoal for cooking.
We rely on these trees because if all the trees were gone, pollution and population rising, there would be more C02 in the air. Trees breathe in the C02 in the atmosphere and let out O2, otherwise known as oxygen which is what we humans breathe in.
Rainforests once covered 14 percent of the earth's land surface; now they cover only 6 percent and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Tropical Rainforests presently give a place to call home for 50 to 90 percent of all organisms, 90 percent of our relatives, the primates, and 50 million creatures that can live no place but the rich rainforests. Though rainforest now only cover 6 percent of the earth’s surface, almost half of all plant and animal species on earth. Some of these species only live in small specific areas, which make them especially vulnerable to extinction. 50 to 100 species are being lost per day, which is around 50,000 a year. We are also close to loosing 25 percent of our medicines.
The future of the world with deforestation looks very gloomy; all the diversity on earth will be gone.
