Tree Hugger

Nowadays, cutting trees has become a hobby for almost everyone. "According to the World resources institute, more than 80% of the earth's natural forests already have been destroyed" (National Geographic, n.d.). Although it is an awful action towards the environment, the new generation does not recognize the impacts since cutting trees has become a daily incident for those people. Due to this lack of knowledge and awareness, the current generation does not hesitate of cutting any tree. Moreover, cutting trees is considered to be disadvantaged to the given country. Countries with no trees means no natural life. On the other hand, trees are of great importance and effectiveness than what we think. Besides that trees provide the nature with many benefits, trees give an exotic view for tourism which can be accounted as an advantage for the country. Indeed, people are consuming and destroying trees vastly and rashly in order to satisfy their needs without valuing the environment for its precious resources. People should equilibrate the surrounding environment by replanting trees as a replacement to the amounts cut annually. Studies have shown that," The world's rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation" (National Geographic, n.d.). Therefore, people in Lebanon should stop cutting trees due to environmental impacts, living species' extinction, as well as the benefits trees provide for humans.

Cutting down trees in a given area means destroying living things' habitat. On the long run, this will outcome in the extinction of animals and trees as well as threatening the nature of food chains and webs. As a result, such complications will reduce the biodiversity of species and limit the areas that they would live in. It has been found that"70% of the Earth's land animals and plants reside in forests" (National Geographic, n.d.). Unfortunately, their shelters are being destroyed by humans in order to satisfy their needs on the life of other creatures. Modern studies showed alarmed statistics about numerous species being endangered and in the risk of extinction due to deforestation. Christine Dell'Amore revealed on the national geographic website that," Of the 63,837 species evaluated for the 2012 Red List update, 19,817 are threatened with extinction, including about 41 percent of known amphibians and 25 percent of known mammals". (Dell'Amore, n.d.). Variety of animals such as monkeys and pandas of the same genus but different species have lost their biodiversity