Deforestation In Indonesia

The forest we clear themselves are home to many animals and plants, not to mention, of course the trees we slash and burn themselves. When we clear them via slash-and-burn, they also vanish along with the trees. Indonesia’s rainforests are home to so many different plants and animals. Many scientists and researchers credit Indonesia as the country with the most species in the world. Indonesia contains the world’s third largest area of rainforest. Thus I can see how, if the area that I use for slash-and-burn is the only one that holds a particular species, it could result in extinction. Because slash and burn agriculture is often practiced here in Indonesia where biodiversity is extremely high, endangerment and extinction may increase.

When slash-and-burn is practiced by large populations, there is a temporary or permanent loss of forest cover, this process is dubbed ‘deforestation’, it has many negative effects on the environment. Deforestation drives climate change. Trees play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests means larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—and increased speed and severity of global warming.

Trees also help keep the water cycle going by returning water vapor back into the atmosphere, plants transpire vast quantities of water - only one percent of all water a plant absorbs is used in photosynthesis; the rest is lost through transpiration. In one growing season, one corn plant transpires over 200 liters, now imagine how much a tree, which is so much bigger than a single corn plant, transpires in a season, additionally, a single acre (4,000 square meters) of dense indonesian rainforest contains so many