why are forests so important  to the world?
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Because trees and plants take in carbon dioxide and put out oxygen.
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Climate balance is one big reason, but there are others. \n\nForests are part of oxygen and carbon dioxide balance, because they absorb net carbon dioxide and produce net oxygen.  Also, they increase water evaporation which increases cloud cover (which tends, amongst a whole bunch of complex effects, to reduce global temperatures by reflecting sunlight) and produces rainfall.\n\nNorth Eastern Brazil is regularly in a state of drought-stricken poverty.   The deforestation of the Amazon basin to the West may be partly to blame.\n\nForests encourage a very wide range of species to exist.   Biodiversity might be a positive benefit to climate balance, because the huge range of biological activities that the different species engage in makes it more likely that stabilising feedback loops will emerge and be robust.\n\nEvolution is very intense in tropical forests in particular, and that makes those areas more likely to produce unusual chemicals.  That's why people hunt rainforests for plants with which to make new drugs.\n\nForests stabilise soil and slow down rainwater, preventing downstream erosion and soil depletion and benefiting agriculture.\n\nFinally, life is sh*t when there are no trees.
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They are homes to millions of species of plants and animals.  They help keep the equilibrium of our planet constant.
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A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. Tropical rainforests arise due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but temperate rainforests also exist. As well as prodigious rainfall, many rainforests are characterized by a high number of resident species and tremendous biodiversity.
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The only aswer to this is- grow more and more trees. Trees produce oxygen, it helps to increase rainfall, it helps to maintain temperture. so grow more and more trees and save earth.
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To make life good or better for the other people who share the planet with you...\n\nSome people forget that..
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When done right, selective logging helps to open the forest up and let more botanical species thrive.\n\nBy halting it, you run the risk of increased, and more dangerous fires, such as those seen n recent times in the western USA.  \n\nEither way you look at it, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't
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Hello Friend! \n To protect our world, environmental education is necessary.
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An effort buy a group of people or a government to protect, very old, large, dense forests.    Protecting them from disease, man's progress etc.\n\nSo you have a place to go and enjoy nature....without spawling apartment complexes everywhere.\n\n\nKick off your shoes and go run through the woods!  Enjoy!
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The pulp of this fast growing trees is use for making high quality paper.The demand for paper is growing and demand is falling short.Henceforth you have a planting and deforesting programme to sustain the paper industry
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a tree that grows money... would end world poverty!\nwould plant them everywhere and let them grow wild.
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It's not the money!\nIt's the fact that the earth will be terribly out of balance and mother nature will take a drastic nose dive if there are not more forests.  All life will probably die.\nOur atmosphere is created by all the plants and trees giving off all their oxygen.  Earth would not be the beautiful life supporting place that it is without trees.
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Things to do to save the forest:\n\nClick here\nhttp://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/01c.html
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Here's a better answer than the one provided above, and a site that will provide the answer(s) you are looking for.\n\nHumans are using up natural resources at a great rate and at a great cost to the health of the natural environment and life on Earth.\n\nIt is not the natural resources by themselves that harm the Earth's environment -  it is what humans do with the natural resources that cause the problems to the environment and to the health of living things, including other human beings.\n\nThe burning of fossil fuels in factories to make products and power, and the fuels used by trucks, automobiles and jet planes have caused acid rain and a great increase in carbon dioxide and pollution in the atmosphere.   And forests have been destroyed which used to absorb carbon dioxide.  Carbon dioxide traps heat in our lower atmosphere.\n\nScientists believe that human activities such as these have led to global warming.
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Rainforest destruction and Global warming.
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the great forests of the world create most of the air we breath so we are cutting of our air supply
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Our beautiful earth is being destroyed. Thousands and thousands of trees are being cut down in short amounts of time, and trees give us the oxygen we need to survive. People are polluting the earth by littering, dumping trash into rivers, lakes and oceans. Car exhaust and smoking causes smog and makes the oxygen layer in our atmosphere thinner. If we don’t take action, our earth will end up like one big junkyard.