what is deforestation?
Deforestation refers to the cutting of trees and clearing of forests for industrial or agricultural use.
disadvantages:
1. Floods and droughts
Soil erosion increases soil flow as a specific cycle of floods and droughts begin.
Forest clearing on mountainous slopes impedes the flow of rivers to the plains, which affects water efficiency, as a result of which the water does not descend rapidly.
Deforestation leads to land degradation as trees play an important role in maintaining the surface of the hills and creating natural barriers to the rapid growth of rainwater. As a result, the water level of the rivers suddenly increases, causing flooding.
2. Loss of fertile soil power
When the amount of fuel is insufficient, cow manure and vegetable waste are used to produce food as fuel. Because of this, each part of the tree is used slowly, but the soil does not receive nutrition. Repeating this process repeatedly affects soil productivity, causing degradation of soil fertility.
With deforestation, rainwater drags the fertile soil over the soil to places where it is not used.
3. Extinct species
wildlife is disappearing due to forest destruction. Many species have disappeared (for example, the Asian cheetah, the Namdapha flying squirrel, the Himalayan wolf, the Elvira rat, the Andaman shrew, the Jenkins shrew, the Nicobar bird, etc.) and many are on the verge of extinction.
4. Air pollution
the consequences of deforestation are very serious. Its greatest loss is seen in the form of air pollution. Where there is a shortage of trees, the air is polluted and the problem of air pollution is the highest in cities. People in cities suffer from many diseases, especially respiratory problems such as asthma.
5. Global Warming
Deforestation has a direct impact on natural climate change leading to an increase in global temperature. Rainfall is also becoming erratic with decreasing forest area. Due to all this, there has been an increase in ‘global warming’ which has a direct impact on humans.
6. Desert dispersion
The desert is expanding on a large scale due to the continuous depletion of the forest area and the erosion of the land.
7. Reduction of water resources
today the river water is shallow and polluted due to the indiscriminate cutting of trees and plants on its banks and mountains. Due to this, the rain is insufficient, which pollutes the water source, and the environment is also polluted and is fatal to breathing.
8. Side effects of industrialization
Trees and plants have prevented the environment from becoming contaminated by preventing these toxic gases from spreading into the atmosphere and by preventing ash particles, etc. in the atmosphere. Today new industries are emerging in cities, even towns and villages. The smoke that emanates from them is found in the environment with a variety of toxic gases.
9. Damage to the ozone layer
Earth’s normal living environment has been polluted as a result of deforestation. It is a serious threat to the ozone layer that is necessary to protect the entire Earth. It is hazardous to even imagine that bad day (may God never come) when the ozone layer disappears.
10. Non-availability of medicinal herbs
Today due to indiscriminate deforestation, mountains and forests are deserted. Because of this, it has become rare to obtain medicinal plants.
