The 7 percent of the carbon tank in the world will disappear if the elephant is exhausted

African forest fili helps more carbon storage in trees in dense rainforests of West and Central Africa and protects one of the most vital ecosystems of the planet. The forest fili, which is three meters long, soybean the bark of seedlings, causes snowshade between the green vegetation of rainforests when you accidentally or eat the leaf and fruits. But this destruction is very useful to damage the forest. According to the news of the BBC; scientists first made field work in two regions where elephants are active in the Congo Basin and disappear, recorded differences in tree cover and tree density. Then they created a model that follows the dynamics of oring such as biomass, tree height and carbon stocks. The model showed that forest elephants reduce the body density in the forest but increase the average tree diameter and total biomass above the ground. This is due to the fact that elephants compete with larger trees for light, water and space than 30 cm smaller trees and chew them. Filler led to the development of larger trees, eliminating competition.

The big trees are further exhausted]
Fabio Berzaghi, a researcher at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory in France, says the habits of elephants are further extended. Smaller trees that prefer to eat Filler have lower wood density associated with faster growth rate and higher mortality rate. Berzaghi says that the behavior of elephants support the growth that stores more carbon in their trunks. Berzaghi says, “You may consider the stories as forest managers.” They are a ‘lock stone’ type. So they play a vital role in protecting biological diversity of living spaces. According to the research; the depletion of forest elephants will result in the loss of 7 percent of the world’s carbon tank, in total 3 billion tons in Central African rainforest. This is equivalent to the amount produced by more than 2 billion gasoline cars for a year. Berzaghi says the work shows that the forest elephants survive, the world’s largest second rainforest, Congo Basin as a large carbon basin. [

The risk of depletion of nesli is very high
The risk of depletion of African forest elephants is very high. Quickly decreased populations due to leakage hunting and forestlessness. In 1970s, there were 1.2 million elephants known in Africa, but they were dragging to the threshold of being destroyed due to the loss of leakage hunters and habitat. According to a research conducted in 2013; the numbers are only around 100 thousand. Thomas Breuer, the Natural Life Protection Foundation (WWF) African forest elephants, "We lost numerous forest elephants in the last twenty years. Forest elephants have a much slower reproductive scheme than Savana elephants and therefore the increase of population lasts much longer. The behaviors were broken due to leakage hunting. Many of them do not have their mother, and they are normally unable to learn individual patterns of movement they inherit from mother.

They increase the carbon stock
According to the research conducted in 2020 by Emma Bush from Stirling University in Scotland, climate change is also badly affected by the nutrition scheme of elephants as it reduces the fruit of trees in African rainforest. African forest elephants are known as ‘Orma mega gardeners’ because of their ability to increase carbon stock and spread vital nutrients around. A research conducted in 2019 found that the destructive behavior of elephant helps increase the total amount of carbon stored in Central African rainforest. Each forest fili can provide carbon emission equivalent to carbon emissions, resulting from using 2 thousand 47 gasoline cars for a year.

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