Deforestation

Forest destruction is a major global problem that has a serious effect on the earth. These effects adversely affect climate, biodiversity, and the atmosphere, threatening the culture and the physiology of life. Forest logging is the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and forests. Virgin Forest has now declined to an area of ​​five-fifths before agriculture, so now the Virgin Forest accounts for only 21% of the Earth's land.

Forest logging includes deforestation, incineration and destruction of forests (Deforestation 2006). In Costa Rica, most deforestation is due to the necessity of farmland. There are three main types of deforestation in tropical regions. In countries with a recession, people look to agriculture to meet the needs of daily living. The poor peasants moved to agricultural settlements and cut several acres of land for agriculture. Then they burned the stump and released nutrients to the soil necessary to grow the crop. In the tropical rainforest this is essential, as almost all the nutrients necessary to maintain life are contained in plants and trees, not in soil. This process is known as slash-and-burn agriculture (Jordan 2006). In a poor country, such agriculture is the only way people can survive. They raise crops to feed themselves and sell to earn money. This may happen in only three years

Forest logging eradicates the world's forests on a large scale worldwide, causing loss of many lands. One of the reasons for deforestation is to clean the land for meadows and crops. According to UK environmental conservation activist Norman Myers, 5% of deforestation is due to pastures, 19% due to excessive logging, 22% due to growth of palm oil plantation, 54% by slash-and-burn cultivation. Forest loss is the driving force for climate change, causing millions of species to lose habitat. The tree functions as a carbon sink. In other words, it absorbs carbon dioxide, which is an unnecessary greenhouse gas which is absorbed from the atmosphere. When trees are removed, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere and few trees absorb the increasing carbon dioxide in the air. Thus, deforestation worsens climate change.