Barbaric Destruction Of Forest

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Although fire belongs to the earliest discoveries of the human being, its use for purposes other than preparing food and getting warm is relatively new. The evidence of the barbaric destruction of forests by primitive tribes does not come from such a distant past. Dutch navigator Abel Tasman Yanszon and his team were the first Europeans who saw the coast of Tasmania because they noticed the smoke rising in different places over the forest. The Tasmanians, engaged in hunting, fishing, and gathering used fire in their daily life. Thus, their activities led to the change of vegetation over the wide area they inhabited; there were also some changes in the nature of the soil and climate. Many researchers prove that before humans appeared, approximately 40% of the islands were occupied by birch forests with an admixture of willows, ash and juniper trees (Hill). Since the era of Icelandic Vikings, forests began to decline rapidly, and now their area does not exceed 0.5%. …show more content…
The result was predatory destruction of entire species (archaeologists found huge accumulations of animal bones on the ground of former hunting victories), and the negative human impact on natural systems. One of the biggest experts of the Ice Age, American geographer and geologist Richard Flint, wrote about the disappearance of animal groups: "the extinction mainly occurred 5,000-10,000 years ago" (Fromm). The damaging effects on the environment stimulated, as strange as it sounds, the development of civilization - in search of new resources the humanity encountered gradual transition from foraging to food production facilities. Therefore, what we have now - the eternal steppes and deserts, loose soil, species of animals - are the consequences of the environmental disasters of
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