Question

rainforests used to cover 14% of the earth's surface. now, they only cover around 6%, why is that so​

Answer 1

Answer: Deforestation

Explanation:

Rainforests have been cut down in large quantities for a variety of reasons such as lumber, farmland and population growth.

• Lumber

Rainforests have a lot of trees that are of very high quality and so would be very useful for furniture. Lumber companies have therefore cut large numbers of trees to make furniture.

• Farmland.

Farmers in areas with rainforests sometime cut down trees to gain more land to use for agriculture. Sometimes they set fire to forests which consume a large area of the forest.

• Population growth.

As the population of humans grows, there is a need for more land for humans and so rainforest trees are cut down to reclaim land from the forests. Land that is then converted to human use.