What are the main threats to tropical rainforests?

What are the main threats to tropical rainforests?

Threats

• Logging interests cut down rain forest trees for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items.
• Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity.
• The paper industry turns huge tracts of rain forest trees into pulp.
• The cattle industry uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear ranch land.

What is destroying the tropical rainforest?

The ever-growing human consumption and population is the biggest cause of forest destruction due to the vast amounts of resources, products, services we take from it. ... Direct human causes of deforestation include logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building.

What would happen if we lost the rainforest?

If the Amazon rainforest is destroyed, rainfall will decrease around the forest region. This would cause a ripple effect, and prompt an additional shift in climate change, which would result in more droughts, longer dry spells, and massive amounts of flooding.

Will we die if the Amazon burns?

As the region experiences more fires in 2019 than it has seen in almost a decade, some people are wondering what would happen to Earth's oxygen supply if the whole of the Amazon were to burn away. ... The short answer is no, Earth would not lose 20 percent of its oxygen if the Amazon Rainforest were lost.

What do Amazonians eat?

Amazonian cuisine includes many freshwater fish such as peixe nobre (noble fish), the pirarucu (the world's largest freshwater fish), and tambaqui. Smaller fishes such as surubim, curimatã, jaraqui, acari and tucunaré are also eaten, often grilled or sometimes fried.

Why is there no rainforest in East Africa?

in the case of east coast of africa cold ocean currents move along the coast due to which they keep the moisture winds away as there is no heating and no formation of low pressure and hence no incoming moisture . the formation of forests on the coastal regions requires rainfall.