When Mount Vesuvius had erupted in 79 AD the eruption caused fatal damage to the environment, causing many animals to be killed by the toxic gases released from the volcano or the chemical in the water caused by volcanic ash in the animal’s water source. Mount Vesuvius had a major effect on vegetation because it left an entire region as a desert wasteland, any plant that had an encounter with lava had died straight away, through other plants died from volcanic ash that was ejected from the volcano or the gases that came out of Mount Vesuvius made acid rain destroying anything else that was left, the toxic gases that were released from the volcano actual toke all the nutrients in the soil causing plants to not be able to grow. After the eruption,
