Discuss the effects of deforestation on the following.

(a) Wild animals

(b) Environment

(c) Villages (Rural areas)

(d) Cities (Urban areas)

(e) Earth

(f) The next generation

(a) Wild animals: Forests are natural habitat of variety of animals, birds and plants. When forests are cut, the natural habitat of the animals gets destroyed. As a result of which they migrate to other places or may face extinction.

(b) Environment: Tress maintain the ecological balance. Deforestation is disturbing the whole set of our ecosystem, leading the major environmental changes like global warming.

(c) Villages (Ruaral Areas): Deforestation increases the chances of soil erosion. As a result, soil losses humus and become less fertile. This hampers agricultural activities and thus disturbs the people in rural areas.

(d) Cities (Urban Areas): Deforestation in cities can increase the risk of many natural calamities such as floods and droughts in that area.

(e) Earth: As a result of deforestation, the chances of drought, floods, desertification increase. Deforestation also increase the level of carbon dioxide on the earth, it will lead to global warming which increase the temperature on the earth. As a result, the entire natural water cycle will get disturbs.

(f) The next generation: Deforestation will offer great challenges to the next generation in the form of of scarcity of water, droughts, storms, floods, pollution, etc. They will not be able to see wide variety of flora and fauna also not get clean and cool environment. As a result, the next generation will have to face severe consequence of deforestation.