RESEARCH PAPER DATA EXERCISE

EAP2 WW051
SANG HEE
RESEARCH PAPER DATA EXERCISE


The destruction of the tropical rainforests
Tropical rainforest is a thick forest in tropical parts of the world that have a lot of rain. The forests role not only maintain the climate but also offer useful resources to us. They are the biological heritage that deveopled over billions of years. Though they are very precious resources to us, we are destroying the tropical rainforests at random. So twelve percent of all Brazil’s rain forests have already been destroyed. And the rainforests are being destroyed more and more. But the problem is that we could not give up both saving resource and protecting forests.
The rainforests are being destroyed not out of ignorance or stupidity but largely because of poverty and greed(Taken from Robinsin, M. H.(1996) The fate of the tropics and the fate of man ZooGoer, 3,P.6). Demand for hardwood in industrial nations has risen dramatically since 1950, and many tropical countries have hardwood timber as well as low labor costs. Consequently, much of this demand has been met by developing nations. Tropical nations also use large quantities of wood for fuel.(Taken from the Global Ecology handbook 1998). But one obvious thing is run out of forests. Continued degradation and elimination of these interdependent and vulnerable tropical forests could eliminate several hundred thousand to over a million species by the year 2000. Since less than 5 percent of all tropical forests receive any protection, mass extinctions of species appear certain.(Taken from the global ecology handbook 1998).
I think that the destruction of the tropical forests is the most serious problem. Because we should get resources from the forests. Without wood, we could not build houses and so on. But we should think about our future. Wood is not renewable resource. Wood is just potential resource. That means wood could extinct like dinosaurs. If wood is extinct forever, we could not live any more. Because the forests offer fresh air and main environmental equality. So we should protect the forests. Although we could not cut nothing, we could cut the forests the minimum. Finally I think that we should protect the destruction of the tropical rainforests. This way is how to save our environment.

Reference
Ehrlich, P. (1987, Jun). Multinational Monitor, P. 6.
Myers. N. (1998). The Global Ecology Handbook.
The Global Ecology Handbook. (1998)