Why do we have to save our forest?
We have many reasons to answer question “why we need to save the forest?”. Forests not only absorb the greenhouse gas emissions, but also prevents us from dangerous diseases. That are the results that recently issued from other studies by a national atmospheric research center owned by the United States (NCAR). Researchers from the NCAR argued that at the top of the canopy in dense forests absorb up to 97% VOCs.
“Plants clean the air in a greater degree than we expected,” said Thomas Karl of NCAR, Thursday (21/10), in Washington. VOCs are chemicals as oxygen volatile organic compounds. These compounds are formed in the atmosphere, derived from hydrocarbons and other chemicals from natural and human activities. These compounds contribute to pneumonia to asthma.
Forests are a huge sink that soaks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and gives out oxygen. This is very important today as one of the ways to slow down global warming. Forests are a habitat for lot of animals and because of illegal logging that occurred recently, some species of animals are extinct. The most important function of a forest is the ecosystem services it provides us free of cost and prevents soil erosion
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