Deforestation is the extermination of forests, deforestation is rising every year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), " An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest — roughly the size of …show more content…
The picture on the right shows the food web and there are 6 animals that live on trees one example is Bats, bats live on trees so when you take them away they won’t have any place to stay so they’ll have to immigrate to find trees and snakes won’t have a place to sleep
Deforestation happens because of cutting trees, deforestation happens because of agriculture, Forest roads, Hydroelectricity, industrial and the extraction of recourses like wood and Urbanization.
Some big companies cut trees for agriculture which means growing crops or raising animals like cows and sheep,
Big Companies want to save a lot of money and buy cutting trees in a tropical rainforest in an underdeveloped or developing country with few regulations regarding deforestation would cost them nothing compared to buying a large land in a developed country with a lot of regulations, that's why many companies choose to deforest tropical