Question

The rainforest has about 19,000 known species of insects. However, due to deforestation, some

species are becoming extinct. This can be modeled with an exponential function with growth
constant k = -0.05. How many species will be left in......
5 years?
10 years?
100 years?

Answer 1

The main cause of deforestation is agriculture (poorly planned infrastructure is emerging as a big threat too) and the main cause of forest degradation is illegal logging. In 2019, the tropics lost close to 30 soccer fields' worth of trees every single minute