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Human Impacts on Tropical Rainforests (Noah C.)

There are several impacts on tropical rainforests caused by humans. A lot of which are bad and are damaging the rainforest, but some are good too. Most of these impacts are something like cutting down trees, too much urbanization, and several other contributors. If bad impacts like these continue to happen we could lose many of the world’s tropical rainforests, but if we start to conserve our resources needed from there we could keep our rainforests for a much longer time.

Some of the negative impacts on tropical rainforests are for example, deforestation. Deforestation is the most destructive impact caused by humans that affect the tropical rainforest. Deforestation is when we cut down huge sections of a forest for either wood, or any resources, or for space for urbanization. Urbanization is when we use the process, deforestation, to clear land and then urbanize that land making several buildings. Once all theses cities are made they start to pollute the area around them, which includes the rainforest. This causes the rainforests to become polluted, causing even more trees and other plants to die and to ruin the soil. Now because most rainforests are very massive these impacts would not destroy the entire thing but would damage possibly a lot of it. Especially with eve more impacts like hunting or poaching the animals of the rainforest causing some of them to die off or move away from the rainforest. Also there is tourism as more people come and visit the areas around or in the rainforests. There are several other negative impacts as well that danger our precious rainforests and all of which together could eventually wipe out all of our worlds rainforests.

With all of these problems we need to have some solutions or positive impacts that we would have for these rainforests. We need to be able to at least kind of make up for all the damage we have done. Some of the positive impacts include reforestation. Reforestation is the opposite of deforestation. It is when we go back and plant more trees. When we are done extracting resources we could use the cleared land for reforestation instead of urbanization. If we planted more trees, us cutting them down would not make as much of a problem. Another positive thing we have done for the rainforest is that we have cleaned the polluted soil so it will be able to have new plants grow onto it. We toke the polluted soil out and we cleaned it from all the pollution, we then put the soil back in and then the rainforest’s plants will start to come back. Once the plants have come back then herbivores that were scared away from the hunting will come back to the rainforest, and once herbivores come back then carnivores will too and then all the animals will have returned to the once polluted and hunted rainforest. These are some things that we have done to try and help the rainforest and protect it from all the dangers. If we continue to do these good positive things then we will help to keep our rainforest here and not to become wiped out.

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Eric W.

One human impact on the tropical rainforest is deforestation. This is such a huge problem because tropical rainforests supply 40% of the world’s fresh air. When you destroy a part of the tropical rainforest the land is useless because the soil there is poor and unfertile. Ways that we can prevent deforestation is by enforcing the law; an estimated 80% of logging in the Amazon is illegal. Another thing that we could do is expand protection areas so less area would be available to people living nearby.

Something else that is a problem and should be fixed is hunting of animals. The combination of hunting and deforestation is causing for a lot of animals to be endangered. What we could do is instead of hunting the endangered animals we should hunt the more dominant species, or just stop hunting in the tropical rainforest in general. Those are some things that we could do to conserve the tropical rainforest.

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