Why are rainforests considered fragile environments that are vulnerable to permanent destruction?

Question

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Answer 1

In addition to the point above the soil in most rainforests is not that fertile. Its nutrients lie only on the very surface of the soil cause by decaying vegetation. Once an area of forest is cleared this exposes this soil to the elements and the rain leaches all the nutrients from the soil. This means that is much more difficult for plant life to re-grow.

Answer 2

Greed rules this planet. The Brazialians will continue to destroy rainforest every year, it would take 100's of years to regrow a rain forest. Once the actual wildlife and fauna etc are killed off, they too would have to be somehow multiplied from whatever specimans remain. so rainforests are fragile because everything is intersconnected in them. They are vulnerable to permenant destruction because mankinds greed knows no limits.

Answer 3

Because everything living in a rain forest depends on the plants growing there. If the trees are all cut down to expand farming areas, every living thing that is there will be affected and potentially  destroyed. Even the climate can be ruined if vast areas of trees are cut down. Trees help keep things cool and moist. If all of the trees in the Amazon were to be cut down, the Amazon would turn into a river running through a desert. And, if the entire Amazon basin had all the trees removed, even the Amazon might dry up.