The Causes And Effects Of Deforestation In Southeast Asia

Deforestation in Southeast Asia Living in a world where humans don’t destroy the environment should be something people wish to achieve. Deforestation is one of many things that should change because not only does it affects our wildlife but it will eventually affect humans as well. Southeast Asia, specifically, is losing their forests at a very rapid pace mostly due to agricultural activities, logging, and the furniture export market. Therefore, there should be stricter laws put into place and for every tree that is cut down there should be a young tree planted. The importance of trees should be recognized by everyone. Since we’ve existed, trees have given us food and oxygen. People often forget that trees play a tremendous part in our lives …show more content…
In addition to the logs that they take, loggers (some of them acting illegally), also build roads to access more remote forests which leads to further deforestation. Daniel Drollette talks about illegal loggers in his article, “So much forest has been cleared to feed the growing number of sawmills that loggers have moved across the borders into neighboring Laos and Cambodia, where they are illegally razing forests there.” Vietnam is now number two in global coffee production; therefore, a lot of their forests are cut down and replaced with coffee bushes causing certain species to go extinct. Deforestation in Asia is said to result in the extinction of 13-42% of the wildlife population (Drollete). The loss of many of these species is likely to result in global extinctions and losing certain wildlife can cause a terrible impact on our ecosystems. If nothing is done and deforestation is to continue at this rate, it is said that Southeast Asia will lose almost three-quarters of its original forest cover by the next …show more content…
This is a concerning issue because as the population of the world continues to grow, so does deforestation. For every tree that is removed or cut down, we should replace it with a young tree. In Southeast Asia, they should learn to balance between coffee bushes and trees. Having the local’s plant trees on their property and in parks would make a slight difference as well. Enforcing stricter laws on deforestation would do a lot of good. The government must step in and produce more laws limiting the amount of trees they 're clearing or have laws for companies to pay for the labor and new trees being planted. Stricter laws on those who get caught illegally cutting down forests would make many second guess their actions, as it would with anything