(i) immediately as carbon dioxide which leads
(i) Population explosion (ii) Agriculture: shifting cultivation, overgrazing, cash crop economy etc.
(iii) Commercial logging: cutting trees for sale as timber or pulp (iv) Poverty (v) Mining (vi) Dams (vii) Infrastructure creation for logging (viii) Forest-fires (ix) Acid rain (x) Development projects and housing projects. Effects of Deforestation:The ill-effects of deforestation are summarized below:
(i) Soil erosion:
Soil is exposed to wind, sunlight, and evaporation due to deforestation. Soil fertility goes down due to soil erosion and rapid leaching of essential mineral nutrients.
(ii) Harm to fisheries:
As the soil is eroded, it accelerates siltation in dams, rivers, and the coastal zone. The increased sedimentation harms downstream fisheries.
(iii) More floods and droughts:
Because of deforestation, there is no regulation of the flow into rivers.
As result, floods and droughts alternate in the affected areas.
(iv) Habitat loss of wildlife:
Butterflies, migratory birds, wild animals suffer due to the loss of their habitat.
(v) Extinction of some species:
Many species are affected and some get extincted.
(vi) Local and global climate changes:
The rainfall pattern is affected as the forest is cut down. Local and global climate changes may result from deforestation.
(vii) Global warming:
If the trees are burned, the carbon is released immediately as carbon dioxide which leads to global warming.
(viii) Danger for the survival of local communities:
Communities lose their source of food, fuel, construction materials and areas for livestock grazing by deforestation.
