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Answer» Explanation: ILL EFFECTS OF DESTRUCTION OF AMAZON FOREST:- The loss of trees and other vegetation can cause climate change, desertification, soil EROSION, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and a host of problems for indigenous people.
- According to Hauser, et al(2002), erosion and flooding turn serious because of increasing deforestation. When erosion and flooding turn serious, biodiversity and specices richness were affected to immensely
- Soil will become LOOSE since there is not any trees’ root to hold the soil together. Therefore, most nutrition can be washed AWAY from the surface soil by the rain.
- the particles of soil will be dehydrated all of WATER and hence will not bond to each other
- global warming leads to climate change, such as some of the forest become arid land. It also accelerated the desertification
- By destroying these rainforests we could in fact be destroying as YET unknown cures for illnesses. Projections suggest that 5–18% of endemic
- production of oxygen is reduced
- animals which live there are lost their habitat, and most of them will became extinct
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