| When people learned to live in new environments, they | | | | grassland with patches of secondary forest tree |
| started to obtain their needs in plentiful supply. Through | | | | species. The fifth one is the bamboo thicket meanwhile |
| their efforts, knowledge, and technology, large areas of | | | | the sixth are cultivated fields. |
| forests were cleared and grasslands were plowed to | | | | Forests are often misused by people. Immature trees |
| raise crops for consumption of their growing | | | | are cut down ruthlessly. Fires just raze the whole |
| community. Due to the latitudinal location of some | | | | vicinity, thereby destroying living organisms and |
| countries and the vast surrounding bodies of water, as | | | | standing timber, and consuming the seeds and young |
| well as the climatic conditions, their forests generally | | | | trees. Even more, fires, as they bring down many |
| are of the tropical rain forest type of biome. This kind | | | | trees to destruction, cause soil erosion and flood in the |
| of forest can cover nearly half of their land with a | | | | lower areas. |
| massive total of square kilometres. | | | | Indiscriminate logging is another way by which humans |
| Occupying almost all part of their country, the great | | | | mismanage the forests. The way trees are cut down |
| forests belts are divided into distinct types. The first | | | | may or may not restore the same quantity as before. |
| one is the primary or virgin forests. The can be found | | | | Other natural factors may bring down forests-insect |
| in lowlands like mangrove, beach, dipterocarp and | | | | enemies, grazing and gnawing animals. Lightning that |
| molave forests. The second one is the secondary | | | | may cause fires and calamities like storms or strong |
| forests. They are developed from virgin forests | | | | winds. That is why we have to take care of our |
| through succession by illegal logging system. The third | | | | forests to avoid these demoralizing situations. It is |
| one are grasslands and open countries. They are | | | | always better to practice good forest management |
| developed from secondary forests. The fourth one is | | | | than to suffer in the mere future. |