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Deforestation
Deforestation is when forests are cut down and nothing is left. This is huge for animals because it creates habitat loss. Without this habitat the animals usually die, or have to leave and go somewhere else. This is happening in Maine, The Amazon, and other parts in the world. Many species have gone extinct because of deforestation.

	Deforestation in Maine
Deforestation in Maine has become a big problem for the last couple of years. Forests mostly in the north are being cut down day and night to be made into manufactured products.   In the 1980’s there was a large market for second home development, especially in New York and New England, and because of that several companies began to sell and advertise tracts of land for vacation homes. Forest based manufacturing is big in Maine industry. In 2001 the forest industries provided employment for 30,000 people, and generated wages and salaries totaling one billion dollars, the largest payroll in Maine's manufacturing sector. Forest based recreation and tourism provided employment for over 7,000 people and generated payrolls of 51 million. In total forest based manufacturing add over 6.5 billion dollars directly to Maine's economy annually.

Facts

1. It takes 5,000 trees for a news paper to make there paper. 2. The highest square miles of deforestation in the amazon in 1995 where about 10,500. 3. The transformation began in 1500 when Europeans first began to seek riches and resources abroad.  After the Napoleon Wars the trade networks began to develop substantially and with them came widespread deforestation. 4. Deforestation was also taking place before 1900 in other non European colonized parts of the world, and since 1900 the forests of the world have only come under more pressure as a natural resource. 5. 30 percent of the global land surface is still forested, that is half the of what there was before. 6. Forests are lost at about 0.2 percent per year. To Top