Whether or not we realize it humans need great amounts of fuel wood just to run their lives(N/A. World Wildlife).We require wood for our basic need to build houses well as furniture(N/A.Live Science).Moreover we still use wood for smaller needs like palm oil, rubber charcoal and paper(Revkin,Andrew.The burning season). Along with fuel wood we still need to eat to survive(N/A.Behind The Issue). So rancher clear forests to grow crops and for animal gazing. Huge amounts of Amazon forests have been cleared to serve human needs of wanting soy and bean(N/A.Behind The …show more content…
Just over previous 50 years 50% of world’s original forests have been lost(N/A. World Wildlife Fund). Before earth consisted of 15 square mile of rainforest now it has only about 6.2(Revkin,Andrew.The burning season). American one of the only huge rain forests left and even Amazon rainforest has been cleared at a very fast rate(Revkin,Andrew.The burning season). About 17% of Amazon rain forest has been cleared because of human demands(N/A.Live Science). That 's about 2,800 acres of Amazon rain forest(Noel Simon,Nature in Danger). Additionally Amazon isn’t the only location where human have been clearing trees. We clear 18 million acres of forests each year which is about 36 football fields every minute(N/A. Live science contributor). Believe it or not the amount of recourses that humans are taking for granted is causing huge amounts of tree