Rainforest destruction contributes to global warming which occurs from increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) leading to net increase in the global mean temperature as the forests are primary terrestrial sink of carbon (Chakravarty et al, 2012). Globally, deforestation accounts for approximately a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, putting it second only to the energy sector, and contributing to the worldwide hike in temperatures (Yeo, 2014), (Defore..Could) and according to Houghton (as cited by Chakravarty et al, 2012) tropical deforestation is responsible for the emission of roughly two billion tonnes of carbon (as CO2) to the atmosphere per year. Therefore surely global warming is believed to be the cause
