What is the human impact on the tropical rainforest?

Tropical rainforests cover a massive amount of the world’s tree surface, each year over 90,000 square miles of the forests are harvested for human use. This deforestation has worried environmentalists because of the release of carbon from the machinery and the vegetation. read more

Extinction- Many species and populations live in the tropical rainforest. Currently, the world is losing 137 species a day due to deforestation, which totals up to 50,000 species per year. Habitat Loss- The reason that causes organisms to disappear is the fact that they lose their homes through deforestation. read more