What is Forest ?
Forest is a place where plants and animals can live many animals need Forests to live and survive. Forests are very important and growing many places in the world. Forests are lungs of world there are six types of forests
- Rainforests
- Tropical deciduous forests
- Mediterranean forests
- Mixed forests
- Worm temperature broad-leaved deciduous forests
- Coniferous forests
- Forests provides job and income people still depends on forests for their daily needs.
- 80% of all terrestrial bio diversity depends on forests.
- Forests plays major role for our health 75% of most commonly prescribed medicines source their ingredients from forests.
- Forests give us Oxygen, rainforests are responsible for 1/3rd of earth Oxygen and 70% of the Oxygen is from marine plants.
The Amazon is the World's largest Forest, the Amazon forest produces about 20% of the World's flow of fresh water Amazon forests is home for nearly 30 million living things.
The Sundarbans is the World's biggest mangrove forest it is located in Bangladesh and Northern India.
Forests are the center piece of most parts from stream side of towering sycamores to the dry ridge top forests of mountains.
A Forest is much more than a collection of trees. Our forests are also natures air filters according to the American Forestry Association, an acre of trees uses about 2.6 tones of Carbon dioxide per year and provides oxygen.
Effects of Deforestation
Deforestation effects the World a lot. The loss of trees and other vegetation can cause climate change, desertification, soil erosion, flooding.
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