Report - Deforestation and Its Devastating Consequence

Deforestation and Its Harmful Effect

Hasan Mahmud, Dhaka, 05 January: Deforestation is a great threat to world's climate. It disturbs our ecological balance and leads to soil erosion and deprives us of fruits and timber and causes severe economic loss. Trees are our best friends. They help us in various ways as they provide us with wood and other products, give us shade, and help to prevent drought and floods.

But it is a matter of great regret that some greedy men are unscrupulously cutting down trees in a large scale and causing deforestation. As a result, the number of trees is decreasing in an alarming rate in our country. If this situation continues, our country will soon turn into a desert. Study says that every country should have 25% forest of its main land but we have only 16% which is already a threat.

Therefore, it is high time we took initiatives to prevent people from cutting down trees for the welfare of the nation and the world. We must not ruin our forests and cut down trees. If for our necessity, we cut a tree then we must plant at least two trees. All of us should come forward in this regard so that we can make our country a land of green beauty.