Why we need conservation of forest and wildlife?

Question

Why we need conservation of forest and wildlife?

Answer 1

because us humans need to fix up our mistakes.

Answer 2

forests take CO2 out of the atmosphere and act as vast carbon sinks.  biodiversity.  haven't you seen medicine man?  we might find a cure for a disease in some forest floor bacteria.  mainly, we evolved with forests and wildlife.  we may be codependent in someway not yet seen.  the earth is system with extremely complex connections that we do not yet fully understand.

Answer 3

Because forest and wildlife have an intrinsic value that is not considered when making decisions on land usage.

Answer 4

Because we as humans are slowly destroying all animal habitats and then killing them off because they are doing something that bothers us or affect our lifestyle when they are tiring to survive in “our” world.

Plus trees= oxygen  (for the forest part)

Take for example, the wolfs that everyone wants to kill off up north (in America).  Just because they go into farm lands to get food for themselves already people decided that they are a bother and should be killed off.  We are the ones who destroyed their food source and habitat in the first place. There are fewer wildernesses in this world now and more and more animals becoming endangered because of our inconsideration to all life on this earth. Most of our way of dealing with problems such as this is to get rid of the problem with guns and traps. When in fact those farmers should think about building better fences. All animals have feeling too. They also hunger as well. It’s not their fault that they are going extinct, it’s ours. So it’s our responsibility to make sure they don’t.  I would like to see snow leopards (which are now rare and endangered) when I’m old and gray, wouldn’t you?

Answer 5

if they die, we die, we are part of the same system. as much as we try we cannot remove ourselves from the basics of nature.

Answer 6

the same reason you need food and air, and your t.v

Answer 7

Because our environment and everything in it (trees, plants, animals, and even people) have developed over time to be pretty much in balance, but when we go around s******g up this balance, the world stops working. If we kill the natural predators of deer, for example, we'll have an overabundance of deer that will invade our backyards and destroy the trees. It's all interconnected, so if we mess around with that, it's like randomly removing parts of a car engine. It won't work anymore, and it may just explode.

Answer 8

The Circle of Life

Have you heard about the bees dying off?  We're all concerned because though some sting, we need them.  They pollenate and our crops grow.  No pollenation, no crops/no food . . . we die.

This is the simplest explanation but it is more than just that.  Hope this helps.

Answer 9

well its like this...FOOD CHAIN !!!

Answer 10

Because trees and plants product oxygen and take in carbon dioxide which helps us breathe and keeps the lungs clean.  Also, who wants to live in a world with buildings and such...I love trees and lakes...its makes the world look beautiful and keeps balance in check.  As for wildlife, we are the highest form of animals and yet we don't want to help the others.  Animals have their place here just like we do and we need to preserve what we have left.  

I teach environmental education so I'm one to help people learn on what we need to take care of.

Answer 11

The forest creates oxygen. New compounds are found everyday that derive from natural resources that help man. Anti cancer, anti heart disease, pain relief, etc are found because of the bioidiversity of the planet

Answer 12

Because after humans have eradicated themselves, the next species to take over the planet will probably come from the forest and wildlife camp.  

It would be a shame to eliminate our potential successors in the planetary hierarchy.

Answer 13

Well for one they are far more amazing and less self-destructive than people. As for a purely selfish human perspective, as I'm sure your coming from, a loss of biodiversity would seriosuly affect our food supplies. Bee's are perhaps the most important thing in our nations food supply, and wild colonies are dissapearing, as well as bee keeper raised ones. Not to mention fish, which obviosuly support economies in poor countries all over the world, and the larger countries, such as the members of the G8, are overfishing the stocks to the point where the stocks are crashing.

Answer 14

We need to all the forest, because animals gets the benefit from it. Because they should live, and because the forest is their home. It's their rights. And saying that would make people say "Is that all? What do I care". We should care, because they are the very reason why trees grow, thus giving us the materials we need to build our house, and other furnitures. I'm talking about woods.They are also they reason why there are fruits. Bats(and most of them) eat fruits and drop them at the floor, then new trees grow. Most of those trees, will become big and yield a lot of fruits that WE EAT.

People are lazy, so you cannot rely on them to spread seeds around. Okay, some animals are plainly just part of the food chain. They help too. There are very few people in a forest or even none. Thus the plants rely on animals(wildlife) to get Carbon Dioxide. It's a perfect place to live for animals, and perfect place to get food and wood, as long as we do something as exchange for those lost.

Answer 15

I'm sure you truely already know the answer and you're just being silly, right??

Answer 16

If we don't peoples greed will totally consume them and they'll disappear from the earth forever.

Answer 17

Forests and wildlife provide us with natural, renewable resources.

The practice of sustainable forestry manages a dynamic forest ecosystem which provides ecological, economic, and social benefits for present and future generations.

Game and non-game wildlife all depend on a well managed forests to protect a wide range of habitats.  

Forests are also fundamental to the quality of the places in which we live.

Answer 18

The importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

The report discusses the links between protected areas and drinking water. It identifies the issues related to watersheds and protected areas, the benefits of managing these areas effectively, and how to make it economically viable and socially sustainable. Some of the key conclusions in the report are summarized as:

Well managed natural forests provide benefits to urban populations in terms of high quality drinking water:

Well managed natural forests almost always provide higher quality water, with less sediment and fewer pollutants, than water from other catchments

Some natural forests (particularly tropical montane cloud forests and some older forests) also increase total water flow, although in other cases this is not true and under young forests and some exotic plantations net water flow can decrease

Impacts of forests on security of supply or mitigating flooding are less certain although forests can reduce floods at a local headwater scale

As a result of these various benefits, natural forests are being protected to maintain high quality water supplies to cities

Protection within watersheds also provides benefits in terms of biodiversity conservation, recreational, social and economic values

However, care is needed to ensure that the rural populations living in watersheds are not disadvantaged in the process of protection or management for water quality

Maintaining high quality water supply is an additional argument for protection:

Many important national parks and reserves also have value in protecting watersheds that provide drinking water to towns and cities

Sometimes this is recognised and watershed protection was a major reason for establishing the protected area. Sometimes such watershed protection has bought critical time for biodiversity, by protecting natural areas around cities that would otherwise have disappeared

In other cases, the watershed values of protected areas have remained largely unrecognised and the downstream benefits are accidental

Where forests or other natural vegetation have benefits for both biodiversity and water supply, arguments for protection are strengthened with a wider group of stakeholders

In some cases, full protection may not be possible and here a range of other forest management options are also available including best practice management (for example through a forest management certification system) and restoration

The watershed benefits of forest protected areas could help to pay for protection:

The economic value of watersheds is almost always under-estimated or unrecognized

It is possible to collect user fees from people and companies benefiting from drinking water to help pay for the catchment protection benefits provided by protected area management - although only in certain circumstances

Payment for water services can also be one important way of helping negotiations with people living in or using watersheds to develop land-use mosaics that are conducive to maintaining high quality drinking water supplies

Answer 19

you are joking right ?? are you seriously asking that question ?? well first of all forests provide us with oxygen , natural resources and energy (wood burning). wildlife keeps the earth's balance-its part of the nitrogen cycle. so without forest and wildlife we would not be here today. and if we dont protect them we will not be here tmw.