An Investigation of Cutting Down of Trees as Human Rights Abuse in the Global World

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the current cutting down of trees as a human rights abuse in the global world.

Methodology: The study employed a documentary review secondary data collection method.  Documentary review is a data collection technique in which data is gathered from reports, journals, Magazines, Newspapers, and articles that have data linked to the research being undertaken (Creswell, 2014). A documentary review was employed to investigate the current cutting down of trees as a human rights abuse in the global world by examining the causes, impacts, and how it's an abuse of human rights.

Findings: It was found out that cutting down trees in the forest is deforestation. The direct causes are caused by people who clear land for crops, and animal grazing and obtain wood for fuel, manufacturing, and construction. The study found that deforestation affects many species that are so specialized to microhabitats within the forest that they can only be found in small areas. Their specialization makes them vulnerable to extinction. In addition to the species lost when an area is totally deforested, the plants and animals in the fragments of forest that remain also become increasingly vulnerable, sometimes even committed, to extinction. The edges of the fragments dry out and are buffeted by hot winds; mature rainforest trees often die standing at the margins. Cascading changes in the types of trees, plants, and insects that can survive in the fragments rapidly reduce biodiversity in the forest that remains. The study further found that deforestation is a human rights abuse because it denies people the right to life. Trees reduce the amount of stormwater runoff, which reduces erosion and pollution in our waterways and may reduce the effects of flooding but when they are cut they cause flooding which erodes people's houses and cause losing lives which is a human rights abuse against the declaration of human rights 1948 (Everyone born in this world has human rights that must be protected by the law).

Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: the governments of the global world should work as the team to fight this devise by ending deforestation and thwarting pandemics to address six of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals: the guarantee of healthy lives, zero hunger, gender equality, responsible consumption and production, sustainably managed land, and climate action (intact tropical forests absorb carbon dioxide, whereas burning them sends more CO₂ into the atmosphere).