maintaining water supply: benefits: - ensures the continuous flow of water - make water suitable for drinking and supporting life problems: - high surface runoff - poor quality of water ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- replenishing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide: benefits: - green lungs of the earth problems: - global warming ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- maintaining nutirents in the soil: benefits: - sufficient nutrients for vegetation to grow well problems: - removal of nutrients by soil erosion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- preventing floods: benefits: - no flood problems: - soil erosion - flooding ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- protecting coasts: benefits: - protect coast problems: - destruction of human properties ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- habitats for flora and fauna: benefits: - a greater biodiversity problems: - extinction of animals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a source of useful materials: benefits: - providing living hood - fuelwood for cooking and heating - provide them with their friends - precious medicinal values - good industrial uses problems: - permanent lost of forest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- habitat for people: benefits: - a place to live problems: - urbanisation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- recreation: benefits: - provide informations for tourists to understand more about forests problems: - lesser place for people to live in ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- research and education: benefits: - interactions between forest animals and plants with the environment problems: - destroy the natural habitat ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
