Trees are the lifeline of our planet. They absorb the primary pollutant that slowly defiles our natural environment. Carbon Dioxide already exceeds the benchmark that was set and is continuously rising. The changes in carbon dioxide brought about by levels caused by the careless handling of the planet by man, damages the ecosystem.
The lifesaving presence of trees will alleviate the gripping tragedy the world is experiencing today. Our wooden friends of ecology provide us with precious oxygen, ameliorating our climate, quality of air improvement, water conservation, preserving the soil thereby supporting wildlife and their habitat. In the photosynthesis process of plants and trees, they exhale oxygen and inhale carbon dioxide.
The absorption of carbon dioxide by plants and trees helps lower down climate change. High carbon levels give us the equilibria effect of our ecosystem. Deforestation spells doom to our planet. Regional indicators are now under alert for easy identification, which areas to focus for replenishment of trees. 14% of these land are now under national protection.
Without protection, these forested areas will give in to the greed of man. Along with deforestation is the transition of the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs). The conditions include HIVs, Ebola, and SARs. Deforestation and EIDs are in association affecting the world globally. The address of these problems is in focus to the land degradation and the illnesses that spawn in effect of deforestation.
According to an article published in Telegraph, The Latin America, Caribbean and the Sub-Saharan Regions have the most deforestation.
Deforestation will tend humans to invade the natural habitats that animals once occupy. The exposure of man to harmful pathogens is imminent. Microbes unknown to man will infect them and could cause deadly outbreaks in the community. The uncontrolled infestation will then result to a plague that could kill by the thousands.
In a report in an article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a deforested area had proven the disease that spawned. Hundreds of lives lost including the collapse the pig farming industry in Malaysia. Scientists identified the scourge as the Nipah Virus. The fruit bats that formerly occupied the deforested area spread the plague causing the tragedy. The devastation cost Malaysia US$450 million.
An article in Energy Policy Institute of Chicago (EPIC) states that a deforested area is the cause of an additional two million cases of malaria in Indonesia. As mosquitos lost their natural habitat, they invade areas where humans dwell thereby contaminating humans with their bites done by the Anopheles mosquitoes.
The deforestation could trigger the outbreak of yellow fever, Lyme disease, and malaria. The governments are primarily addressing deforestation, but logging is still on the rise. Deforested areas to a high magnitude saw the outbreak. Forest pathogens in contact with humans bore outbreaks like the American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) in Costa Rica, Hanta Virus in Panama, and Malaria in Peru, Indonesia, and Africa. All these infestations started at the edges of a deforested area.
