Lets Save Our Tropical Forest Essays - Habitats, Ecosystems, Forest

Do you know that tropical forests are in trouble now? Since the beginning of time, tropical forest have been a peaceful paradise of huge trees, leafy plants, animals, birds, insects more than you can imagine. But, tragically these forest are disappearing at an alarming rate, about 30 hectares a minute. In fact, 32 million hectares of tropical forests are destroyed each year in a small country like Malaysia. How about Indonesia which has larger number of tropical forests than Malaysia? We should all be concerned about it. This time I?d like to talk about the importance of tropical forests as the lungs of the earth and the impact of tropical forests? destruction for our life viability. My discussion will be in 3 main points: ?First, I?ll give you the importance of tropical forests. ?Secondly, I?ll give you the reasons why people cut down these forests. ?Lastly, I?ll give you the reasons why we must save tropical forests. Tropical forests are often called the lungs of the earth because they help keeping oxygen in the air that we need to live. While it?s true that the most of the world?s tropical forests are in South America, especially Brazil, tropical forests influence the weather everywhere on the earth. That?s because the trees absorb a heavy gas called carbon dioxide from the air around us. As a result, the weather cycle change regularly each year and people can predict what will happen with the weather. However, there are some dilemmatic problems with the tropical forests. People often cut down these forests for a lot of reasons. They cut it down to grow food and raise cattle. They also need the woods for the forest to build houses for their shelter. This condition becomes worse when big companies open the forest in order to find cheap sources of wood and beef. They also drill the land for oil and mine it for gold. These conditions make the forest lose its function because when the trees are burned, CO2 in the leaves is released back into the air and built up in the air. It traps heat close to the earth instead of letting the heat go out into space. So when there is too much CO2, the earth?s temperature rises. This is what we call global warming. It causes strange weather pattern. Although tropical forest offers some benefits to us, such as producing a lot of goods that we need in our life, but it can also threaten us if we don?t keep the balance. Now, tens of thousands of different kinds of animals disappear each year. About 200 million people live in tropical forests also. Their lives are threatened because of irresponsible men. Because of this, we need to be responsible to preserve our tropical forest. Due to these conditions, we propose that you pay attention to keep an eye on tropical forest?s destruction such as illegal logging and clearing. To solve these problems, we have looked at three different options: First, the government has to stop the illegal logging which is done by big companies. This option gives us benefits such as reducing the damage and preventing natural disaster. Besides, the government can also save the national properties. But, there are however, some practical problems in field. Some of the government staff sometimes commit in corruption. They cooperate with brokers who give them money. So the second option we considered is to make restricted area in all part of tropical forests by cover it with wire fence. This gives us benefits like people cannot enter these forests because it was protected by the law. There is problem here too. If the forests are covered, the people who live near tropical forests would be lost their job. So, now let?s look at the third option. To save the forest we don?t have to prevent people in cutting down the tree. What we need is just doing sustainable harvesting. It means replacing what we take from the forest, such as planting tree for every tree we cut down. Though it?s like trivial, but if all of us do this program, we will be out of danger.