FORESTS ARE THE GREEN LUNGS

Forest - A Valuable Resource

Forests are a valuable resource providing food, shelter, wildlife habitat, fuel, and daily supplies such as medicinal ingredients and paper. Forests play an important role in balancing the Earth's CO2 supply

Forests as homes for animals and plants

Forest is a habitat for many plants and animals because it provides a suitable environment for them. For example, neem, Sheesham, Palash, tiger, porcupine, elephants, jackal, etc. It consists of a root, soil, decomposers, and decomposing organic matter.

Food Chain and a Food Web with their interdependence on each other-

All organisms in a food web are interdependent. A food chain is just one strand of a food web.

What are canopies and understoreys?

Canopy is the roof-like structure formed by collective crowns of a group of trees.

The understorey is the layer formed by the plants like shrubs that exist between the canopy and the ground level.

Reasons for the depletion of forests - 

Depletion of Forests: 5 Main Reasons for the Depletion of Forests

Reason # 1. Human Settlement

Reason # 2. Conversion into Arable Land

Reason # 3. Lumbering

Reason # 4. Development Projects

Reason # 6. Fragmentation