1. DEFORESTATION

2. What is deforestation? Deforestation refers to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or related ecosystems into less bio- diverse ecosystems such as pasture, cropland, or plantations Kricher, 1997.

3. How is this a problem to the world? Every two seconds an area of forest the size of a football pitch is lost to logging or destructives and much more. Not only are we losing lots and lots if forests to be used for water and paper recourses it is also a loss for all of the animals that live in the forests. It is estimated that almost 1.6 billion people around the world are relying on the forests to keep them alive.

4. Who does it affect? Deforestation affects pretty much everyone and everything especially the animals and us. It affects the animals because some of them lay their homes in the forest and without the trees they have no where to live. It affects us because without trees it increases the oxegyn and bit by bit we will eventually find it harder to breath.

5. How can we make it better We could make it better by recycling and that will make it better really quickly because it reduces the amount of rubbish in the world and if there is lots and lots of litter in the world or rainforests that could cause polution and polution links to deforestation. Despite the fact it causes polition it also makes the animals suffer from all of the litter and they could end up getting trapped.

6. How can we stop it? There are lots of things that we can do to make a difference to the worlds rainforests. One easy way of stopping deforestation is by planting a tree or maybe two or three, and that will help because it will make more trees so the animals can live longer and we can breathe much easier. Another way of increasing deforestation is going paperless or try to use as least paper as possible.

7. That's why we think we should stop deforestation! By Amy Merchant and Abbie Moon