Deforestation

What is Deforestation?

Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest. This can include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing, or using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing.

How Air Pollution Effecting :

1. Decrease air quality

2. Increase various pollution like air pollution, soil pollution

3. Loss of biodiversity

4. If this will going on then there will be shortage of food, and plant by-products

5. Can cause oxygen shortage

Recent Events (effect):

1. Amazon fires (increase by 84% in 2019)

2. In 2005, the government of Brazil said that 48 percent of Amazon deforestation that took place in 2003 and 2004 occurred in Mato Grosso.

3. California Wildfire

Cause:

• Agricultural Expansion

• Wood extraction

• Infrastructure expansion

• Increase in human needs

• Loss changes of plant evolution because of loss in their number