“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be with the reach of predatory human hands.” -Havelock Ellis
The reference is further confirmed by F. D. Roosevelt who says ‘The nation that destroys its soil will destroy itself’.
Man is surrounded by greed or lust to earn more. Industrialization induces vacating the land and fixing rocks of industry or towers for industrial offices. This process is rightly described by the people, who visited New York and saw the high building with no trees near about, ‘This city of rocks’, dwells and exposed to all roots of danger for humanity’. In the same way land grabbers are capturing the forests and making big buildings. Deforestation not only involves the tree destruction but also manages the wild animals. They as much block the natural circle and this ultimately results into race destruction. This action has long-lasting effect on the survival of human race.
Deforestation involves the cutting down, burning, and damaging of forests.
Deforestation can be defined as the change of forest with depletion of tree crown cover more than 90%. However, depletion of forest tree crown cover less than 90% is considered forest degradation.
It is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres i.e. 7.3 million hectares of forest roughly the size of Panama are lost each year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Some other statistics:
About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared as recorded in FAO
Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world’s