Is the rise in endangered species anyway related to deforestation????

Question

I know that one reason is global warming. Please tell me more!

Answer 1

its is one of the factors, along with pollution, disappearing habitat, and changing climates.

Answer 2

Wild life need there specific habitat to survive or they will through evolution change or become extinct. Through de-forestation and population growth people have become the number one problem to entire ecsystems. People take more and more land for themselves and push the animals out. There are only so many places that will support the specific animals habitat and when there gone the animal is gone.

Answer 3

Well, I would say that deforestation definatly contributes to the problem. But not only does the loss of our forests hurt the animal life, it also hurts us by reducing the amount of oxygen available for us to breathe, it increases the erosion of our shorelines, decreases protection from both the sun and wind. And it all around decreases the beauty of our land.

Answer 4

Destruction of habitat--cutting down forests, plowing prairies, draining wetlands--is a primary cause of the loss of species.

Another is invasion of non-native species into an area, crowding out native species.

Global warming also destroys some habitats, and encourages some species (often the aggressive, weedy ones) at the expense of others.

Answer 5

Definately not, it just because of the corrupted leaders selfish ness in eager to earn money and causing a in-definate loss to both the farmer and consumer in form of "forward Marketing".

Answer 6

LOSS OF HABITAT & EXSTINCTION+G.W.

Of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

A lot of human activity is speeding that up since we tend to overpower all the other species in one way or another.

Some reasons why animals are being wiped out ,in the forrests are:

The hunting of exotic species for the consumer market

only about 10% of the animals caught survive

The hunting of animals for food by settlers

Forrest fires ,that have started because of slash and burning of forrest ,to clear the land for farming, had gotten out of control

The loss of Habitat because the conditions have changed ,e.g less humidity because of surrounding farmlands ,or overpumping of rivers for human use(farming and utility)

Because of contamination of the waters ,

Expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's

clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years

the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.

TV put out a series of documentaries

there are campaigns in the News papers

and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

The jungle gets smaller by the day

more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees

It is an impossible situation

as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

And the Animals will continue to be trapped ,as long as people keep buying the exotic animals

we must look for ways to improve economic situations on the edges of Nature .

The only way to preserve the forrest is to devellop eco tourism under strict control that has limited acces ,and use the local people in the concept as guides ,hotel staff and get them to start home industries of artifacts .

Eco tourism is the only concept that profits by a healthy back ground with out harming it

Trees are coming down all the time ,

in My town trucks loaded with huge logs of exotic timber leave the mountains with permits bought from corrupt oficials almost nightly

We can only guess at the exact amount but from my house we can see many bare patches on the mountains and the river is constantly muddy in the last 3 years ,because topsoils, without the protection of the forrests , is washed into the rivers ,

This is just one place and this is happening all over Mexico ,the Market for the wood being the USA.

The Indians or local people would cut everything down and burn the forrest to replace it with harmfull short term farming killing the soil in no time

IN THE PAST

the sahara used to be forrests

arabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times

Ghengas Kahn burned all the forrests here and filled the well with water and so turning vast lands into dessert.

the Spanish Armada deforested Spain

.the Phoenician fleet deforested Lebanon

Madagascar a botanic paradise is now destroyed

the exotic animals sold or killed ,the forest slash and burned for agriculture ,the coastal water poluted by topsoils washed fronm the denuded moutains by the rains.

Many  countries in Africa (because of poverty and war as well as greedy farming )

Borneo because of the expensive timber

india ,China ,Mexico ,South Americas Amazonia,

Europe because of civilization,USA,Japan because of overpopulation,

REFORRESTATION

we must reforrest and at the same time reduce our carbon emissions.

most governments are aware of these and many first world countries now include programs to reduce their carbon emissions.

the world bank pays large subsidies for farmers to plant trees especially a tree called Paulownia elongate carolinia,because it is one of the better ones that capture carbon.

NOTE

1000 trees that are replanted do not come anywhere near as producing the same effect or fullfilling the same function ,as far as carbon absorbtion ,production of humidity,climatic effects as the absorbtion or release of heat ,as ONE SINGLE FULLY GROWN TREE.

People keep saying we are good we cut down a thousand trees and replanted 20 thousand more

This means nothing in terms of environmental effects.

It takes at least 10 to 20 years before one of these replanted trees makes the same impact as the ones that are removed.

And now the quest for ethanol the bio-.gas is begining to destroy more than anything else has in the past

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CLIMATE CHANGE

And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,

vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

Recent studies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shown that bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." The studies also revealed that the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.

If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with that would ensue major economic disruption and possibly famine.

Bees are not the only polinators but if these things are happening to bees we can bet on it that other insects are also in trouble ,on top of this many people are spraying for mosquitos ,with drastic effects .

So much follows the insects in the food chains ,that we can expect a lot of very bad changes in the environment .

Only time will tell what is in store for us ,and that time is running now .

Everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor events any more

Answer 7

Sure. Forests are the habitat of about 70 percent of the species living in the continents.

Answer 8

Not all species. But some of them are effected by deforestation because it is there habitat. If you destroy an animals habitat - E.g. Deforistation detroys forests for animals like monkeys & Melting off the polar ice caps destroys the habitat of polar bears and seals.

Deforistation i think is leading orangatanges and pandas to become extinct. Try going on www.WWF.org

Answer 9

Yes, if animals' habits are destroyed or severely altered, they die off. More below at the WWF link below.

Answer 10

change of an acceptable climate, people encrouching on their territory, pesticides changing egg shells etc. when ever we develop a method to kill a pest, we also remove that pest from the food chain which then affects all other animals and things up the food chain

Answer 11

Generally, the rise in endangered species is only due to human activities.

Answer 12

Deforestation, global warming, pollution, overpopulation (by humans, we wipe out animals' habitats when we expand cities and such) and massive hunts all help endanger species.

Answer 13

Yes but this is just one of the reasons along with global warming, islandisation, introduction of alien species, release of poisonous chemicals such as Sulfur dioxide which cause acid rain destroying forests

Answer 14

If somebody burned down your house, or knocked it over with a bulldozer, then you would not have a place to live anymore. So, to answer your question, yes.

Answer 15

That would be one of the answers but global warming may be another. With the rise in earth's temperatures the polar ice caps have started melting and endangered the lives of polar bears and penquins. Another answer to your question would be poachers. Poachers in Africa have drastically reduced the highland gorilla populations and the elephant populations as well. Human beings can be as dangerous in their behavior as global warming itself.

Answer 16

endangered species is not at all related with deforestation. the concept of endangered species arised due to merciless killing of wild animals for economic improvement. many of the animals now r facing this problem. deforestation is for fire wood or forest products. this is completely different from it.