Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Study:
Deforestation leaves fish undersized and underfed.
The amount of fallen
leaves into rivers and lakes makes the fish in the waters fatter and bigger, a
new study suggests. That is because much higher proportion of water nutrition is
found to be made from carbon from trees and leaves than from aquatic food chain
sources.
This means that
deforestation makes freshwater fish thinner and its population smaller. This
sounds like a serious problem not only from environmental and ecological but
also from dietary aspects because it is estimated that more than six percent of
the animal protein supply for humans relies on freshwater fishes.
If you compare six
percent of today’s seven billion population and that of nine billion of 30-some
years later, more forests seems to be needed to sustain the animal protein supply.
Enjoy reading and
learning about what deforestation could do to the natural environment and humans’
stomach.
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