DEFORESTATION

The consequences of the destruction of the arboreal layer worldwide constitute a serious problem with multiple consequences. Within the effects one is: The reduction of the productivity of the zone, the ground is more subject to the erosion, alters the hydrologic cycle, largely diminishes the reserves of nutrients and biomass before stored in the rest of trees and leaves. It is clear that the deforestation, whatever his intention - or the advantage of the resources timber, the conversion to pasture for cattle raising or agriculture -, consequently represents the main cause of the destruction of the habitat of the species and of the disappearance of many of them.