The Rain Forest Destruction Must Be Prohibited

by: Hengky

Rain forest has important role of human life. Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750-2000 mm (68-78 inches).Rainforests are home to two-thirds of all the living animal and plant species on Earth. It has been estimated that many hundreds of millions of species of plants, insects and microorganisms are still undiscovered.

Tropical rainforests are rainforests in the tropics, found near the Equator (between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and present in southeast Asia (Myanmar to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia), sub-Saharan Africa from Cameroon to the Congo, (Congo Rainforest), South America (the Amazon Rainforest) Central America (Bosawás, southern Yucatán Peninsula-El Peten-Belize-Calakmul), and on many of the Pacific Islands(such as Hawaii).

Tropical rainforests have been called the "Earth's lungs," although it is now known that rainforests contribute little net oxygen additions to the atmosphere through photosynthesis. More than half of the world's species of plants and animals are found in the rainforest.

Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna including mammals, reptiles, birds and invertebrates. Mammals may include primates, felids and other families. Reptiles include snakes, turtles, chameleons and other families while birds include such families as vangidae and Cuculidae. Dozens of families of invertebrates are found in rainforests. Fungi are also very common in rainforest areas as they can feed on the decomposing remains of plant and animal life.

Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth," and the "world's largest pharmacy," because of the large number of natural medicines discovered there. People can’t live perfectly without forest.

Forest has many functions for human life. Wood is the most important and the most used by people. With wood people can make paper, a house, furniture, and many more. But, nowadays many people don’t care about the rain forest.

They cutting the trees, take out the trash in the forest, exploitation the forest and many more.They don’t care the effect of rain forest destruction, they just priority their want.

The rain forest destruction must be prohibited. The bad effect of rain forest destruction can damage an animal habitats, temperature of earth can be hotter than now, water sea level can raising, island sinking, and flooding.

First, rainforest destruction can damage animal habitats. Many animals were extinct. Animal extinct happened because of human activity, for example exploitations the forest and animal didn’t have house, cant live so that they dead. ”badak bercula satu” is one of example of animal extinct, it cause by the forest destruction. And now the government of Indonesia make a place in ujung kulon(west java) for conserve “badak becula satu”.

Secondly, the rainforest destruction can cause temperature of earth can be hotter than now. Nowadays temperature on our earth is hotter than past. Why it can be happened? People cutting trees or exploitations the forest is the first factor. One of the function of rain forest are rain forest can circulate the CO2 in our earth and change it into 02 that human need for respirations. However if the number of trees just a little, it can interfere with the circulation of CO2 into O2. Forest destruction can decrease the adsorbing of CO2 and the earths will hotter cause of gas CO2.

Thirdly, the rainforest destruction can make Water Sea level rising. It can happened cause the temperature of earth hotter, than it can make melting of North and South Pole, so that the water level can increasing. Fourthly, the rain forest destruction can cause an island sinking. Because of the water level increasing, many islands were sinking. An Island can sink because water sea level increasing, make flooding and the island are covering by sea water.

Finally, flood. Flooding can happened because of increasing of water sea level. High water sea level gets into the land and makes flooding. Example is street aim to bandara internasional soekarno hatta has flooding because of water sea level get into cengkareng street (08may08).

As a conclusion, the rain forest has an important role in human life. If we are not care about our forest earth will be messy. We must supported many program which to care, to protect, and to converse our environment. We must prohibit the rain forest destruction, if we are no stop that, it can cause many problems in human life.