Declining forest cover in malaysia results primary from urbanization,agricultural fires and forest conversion for oil-palm plantations and other forms of agriculture.However,recent report showed that the population of Malaysia has increased to 27 million people and this can cause very serious problems to the biodiversity as there are more and more forests need to be cleared to built the housing estates.
One of the main effects of deforestation to biodiversity is erosion.The soil erosion is caused when the forests have been cut down,essential nutrients are washed out of the soil all-together.When there are no trees to keep the soil in place,the soil become ripe for erosion.It dries and cracks under the sun's heat.Furthermore,rainfall washes remaining nutrients into rivers.As the result,the soil might be completely stripped of essential nutrients and the land will be useless.
Flooding is a quite serious consequence of deforestation.Clearing the forest dramatically increases the surface run-off from rainfall,mainly because a greater proportion of the rain reaches the ground due to a lack of vegetation which would suck up the excess rainfall.In areas where there is little vegetation will cause the flood.
Deforestation will also destroy the habitat of the rainforest in Malaysia and lead to the problem of animal extinction.Animals are forced to move to another place to survive.They will fight among each other and of course,the weakest will be eliminated.It is quite often to see some rare animals running over the streets looking for food in Malaysia big cities nowadays.You can easily find a squirrel looking for food in the garbages.Many animals will extinct because of this bad conditions.
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5 comments:
I feel like I am back in my secondary school days where I took geography...
I agree with you that the uncontrolled deforestation in Malaysia definitely will bring a negative effects to human. But the development is needed for people to survive,thus i think with controlled development, the effects causes by the uncontrolled deforestation issue may reduced.
Very insteresting topic. We human beings live on the planet together with plants and animals. All the livings are supposed to be equal but in fact what we are doing endangers the animals and plants. We must be aware that if we continue doing harm to our planet, we will pay it back someday.
This is a very well organized and insightful discussion, with only a few language problems!
Do yu think that the government should rethink it's population policy in the light of this situation?
Thank you!
In my opinion, I think that if government want to accommodate the increase population they should like considered building high rise flat rather than Terraced house which uses more land. This should reduce the area of damage done to the land.
Although this reduces the area done, it is not the best way to overcome the problem.
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