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Deforestation is generally the clearing of forests through logging or cutting and burning of trees in the wildlife. This activity is usually done for many reasons. Some trees are burned and transformed to charcoal, which is used for cooking and some land areas are cleared to prepare the construction of settlements, building plantations, or pasturing animals.

What makes the mass removal of trees detrimental to the environment is the damage it poses to the animal’s habitat, especially when replanting of the cut trees is not being implemented. The biodiversity in a region is affected if the trees are lost reducing the sufficient supply of oxygen. Absorption of carbon dioxide is also reduced when plants are eliminated. In mountainous areas, soil erosion, another global environmental problem, defined as changes in soil formation is usually a burden when trees begin to falter resulting in landslides and flooding in low affected areas.

Ignorance or lack of concern about the importance of trees is the culprit why deforestation has become a widespread activity. As this continues to a large scale practise, it will affect the wildlife and the natural ecosystem where living things all depend. This will cause further extinction of some organisms, climatic changes, shifting to deserts or desertification of places and displacing tribal groups from their settlements due to urbanisation.

To stop the widespread malpractice of deforestation, vigilance among the governments globally should be strengthened in maintaining a healthy biodiversity and nurturing the public on the essential information about taking care of the environment.