Why are rainforest animals endangered?

Answer 1

Many people are cutting down trees which is also called deforestation. This means that they are destroying the ecosystems for plants and animals so the plants and animals are becoming endangered which results in them dying out or becoming extinct. This is just one reason why the world's rainforests

are in danger.

Answer 2

Rain forest animals are endangered mostly because of men cutting down trees to make paper, houses etc or they would just clear the whole place up to make a farm, landscape etc.

Also, animal species of the rain forest eat other animal species of the rain forest so i would blame the cane toads for causing species to be endangered because there pretty much all over the place eating animals up.

Answer 3

The Amazon rainforest covers an area of about 5 million square miles - the whole of the Amazon River basin and the area beyond it. The warm climate and the water from the river enables a huge variety and diversity of plants and animals to grow there. About 30% of all plant and animal species that we know about live in the Amazon rainforest.

The opening of the Amazon river basin to settlers over the last two centuries has led to large areas of the forest being burned. Once the vegetation is no longer there, the rich habitat is destroyed and large areas can become waste, losing soil and losing the capacity to support life.

The loss of species diversity and the culture of indigenous peoples is a tragedy but the impact of destroying the rainforest goes beyond the local area. Destroying forest reduces the capacity of the planet Earth to combat the increase in carbon dioxide formed by human industrial activity, making global warming more likely.

Answer 4

Rain forests ARE being cut down, now more than ever. It all comes back to the one thing that is the main problem: the economy. Logging does bring in a good amount of money, and with all of the trees there, it is a big temptation to simply cut down some trees. People don't think that it would matter as rain forests are so large, but it does. It takes away the natural habitats of the many creatures that live there, and forces them to move into another animal's territory.

I hope this helped some. =] Answer: When rain forests are being cut down and the animals have nowhere to go and when the animals come out people start to hunt them.

Answer 5

The main reason that rainforests are cleared is not actually for the wood and other resources they can provide-- it is to "get them out of the way" so the rich soil can be used for farmland. Sometimes the wood isn't even cut down and sold, the trees are simply set afire.

Want to help change this? One crop that this practice is used to prouce is palm trees-- and when orangutans come back to their former home to sneak a palm snack, they are often shot by angry plantation owners. We can help curb this process by avoiding palm products. For instance, we can choose to buy toothpaste that does not contain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate.

Answer 6

some forests get acid rain, and that can kill the plants

Answer 7

urgay