My view: deforestation

Not only is it unfortunate that deforestation is happening but what is more unfortunate is that millions of humans aren't aware, which makes the problems worse by the second. Deforestation is the process of clearing trees in forest or just trees for land. Personally I am aware that trees are very important to our environment and helpful to us humans and nature... However I wasn't fully aware of how severe this problem is elevating too... On worldwildlife.org I came across some interesting facts. Such as, forests only covering about 31% of land on our planet... Thinking that there was more areas containing trees I was a little surprised.  Especially how so many trees are being cut at such a rapid rate, while our planet doesn't have much land with the resource to begin with. Deforestation also has to do with global warming because of the climate change.  Because trees take in the C02, there is less in the environment then there would be with out them... In the book on page