Deforestation In Chile Essay

Chile is loosing its biodiversity as you read this paragraph. The country suffers from widespread rapid deforestation putting an end to many of the most unique animals on the planet. Chile has over 80 percent of their natural forest wiped out. Due to the demand for wooded products many large companies have wiped out native forest area and even planted non-native trees, which now dominate throughout the country. In this paper I will bring to the forefront the major impacts that deforestation has on Chiles’ environment and animals living in the Valdivian Coastal Reserve, which is part of the worlds temperate rainforest.
Chile is known for their abundance of forest and biodiversity. The Valdivian Coastal Reserve contains a variety of temperate broadleaf flora and is a mixed-forest eco-region located on the west coast of South America, Chile, and Argentina. Most of the Valdivian Coastal Reserve rainforest is located in Chile. The forest has many bamboos and ferns, and evergreen trees. According to Veblem Delmastro, who is an expert in biogeography, forest ecology, landscape ecology and the ecological aspects of global environmental change says that Chile has faced many disturbances to their forests due to …show more content…
The Spanish destroyed much of the forest for land and agriculture. The trees were cut for construction materials and wood to burn. According to, Mary T. Kalin Arroyo and Adrian Hoffmann who are professors at the Universidad de Chile, she describes in her article, “Temperate Rain Forest of Chile” that The really impactful deforestation in the temperate rainforest didn’t really begin until the 19th century. Arroyo says, this was one of the most massive deforestations recorded in Latin America. After the nineteenth century and colonist began occupying the lower parts of the rainforest only 25% of Chiles original area of native forests were