What Are The Consequences Of Rainforest Destruction In Borneo?
What are the Consequences of Rainforest Destruction in Borneo?
By: Jessica – 9B Introduction
The forests of Borneo are one of the most biologically diverse habitats on Earth and home to various rainforest species such as orangutans, clouded leopards and pygmy elephants. Nevertheless, many tropical areas around the world, similar to these treasured rainforests, are being cut and degraded for timber, palm oil, pulp, rubber, minerals, and other materials. The action of deforestation is prompt to endanger the existence of valuable species. Not only that, deforestation is also being matched with illegal wildlife trade as forests provide easy access to more land and remote areas (WWF, n.d). This resulted in several severe consequences mainly habitat …show more content…
Large endangered mammals such as orang-utans and elephants are particularly in threat because they need the vast areas of the rainforest to survive. Orang-utan numbers are in precipitous decline, only 250-400 tigers remain, and less than 100 rhino are left in the forests, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (------).
When left alone, Borneo’s forests are not naturally prone to forest fire but as the forests are opened up due to humans, they dry out and become more prone to forest fires. Fire and haze produced by the forest fire many result in impacts on human health, short and long-term medical treatment costs, losses in tourism, and forfeited timber revenue.
Deforestation and forest degradation account up to 20% of the total global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. WWF projections indicate that if the island of Borneo continues at its current rate of deforestation, it will be severely affected by climate change through the increased risk of floods and forest fires, human health impacts, changes in agricultural yields and damage to
By: Jessica – 9B Introduction
The forests of Borneo are one of the most biologically diverse habitats on Earth and home to various rainforest species such as orangutans, clouded leopards and pygmy elephants. Nevertheless, many tropical areas around the world, similar to these treasured rainforests, are being cut and degraded for timber, palm oil, pulp, rubber, minerals, and other materials. The action of deforestation is prompt to endanger the existence of valuable species. Not only that, deforestation is also being matched with illegal wildlife trade as forests provide easy access to more land and remote areas (WWF, n.d). This resulted in several severe consequences mainly habitat …show more content…
Large endangered mammals such as orang-utans and elephants are particularly in threat because they need the vast areas of the rainforest to survive. Orang-utan numbers are in precipitous decline, only 250-400 tigers remain, and less than 100 rhino are left in the forests, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (------).
When left alone, Borneo’s forests are not naturally prone to forest fire but as the forests are opened up due to humans, they dry out and become more prone to forest fires. Fire and haze produced by the forest fire many result in impacts on human health, short and long-term medical treatment costs, losses in tourism, and forfeited timber revenue.
Deforestation and forest degradation account up to 20% of the total global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. WWF projections indicate that if the island of Borneo continues at its current rate of deforestation, it will be severely affected by climate change through the increased risk of floods and forest fires, human health impacts, changes in agricultural yields and damage to