The importance of forest holds all of
their inhabitants as well as for the over all health of the planet. The
benefits of forests to the society and to the diversity of life make it vital
that they be protected form deforestation and other potential negative impacts
of civilization.
(1)
Forest type
Forest thrive in diverse climate regions throughout the
world and can be categorized by their locations and elevations. They are vital
store houses of the planet’s biodiversity. Sub-tropical consists of trees that
can resist the summer drought.
(2)
Climate
Forest are major contributors to the earth’s
ability to maintain its climate, by the global impact of their photosynthesis.
They are natural defense against climate change, removing the green house gas
carbon dioxide and generating oxygen. This assists in purifying the atmosphere
and control rising temperatures but deforestation negates these benefits.
(3)
Ecology
In addition to assisting in climate control,
forest have other ecological benefits. They prevent erosion by reducing the
rainfall’s force on the soil’s surface and by absorbing water and not allowing
it to directly run off and remove topsoil. Forests also act as water filters,
collecting and storing water and recharging underground aquifers. Forests also
increase the atmosphere’s humidity by transpiration, which affects temperature
and rainfall.
(4).
Commercial importance: Mankind drives many benefits from forest
ecosystems. May medicines and pharmaceuticals have been discovered in plants
nature to forests. Local communities survive on plants and animals culled from the
forests. Products that modern society depends on such as wood, paper, and
bamboo all originate, from forest ecosystems.
(5).
Biodiversity
Forests contain a greater range of biodiversity
than any other ecosystems on earth. The wide variety of trees and plants found
in tropical forests comprises particularly intensive biodiversity. Biodiversity
is important on its own terms in ways we may not currently understand, as
interdependent species have evolved over millions of years to interact and
flourish.