The world's lockdowns have caused deforestation to increase, according to a new report by the WWF. Lockdowns worldwide, caused by state-controlled restrictions, such as the restriction imposed on people from world governments where people are not allowed to go outside or work outside, is having a detrimental impact to the natural world.
In this case, it is having a detrimental impact on the world's forests. These lockdowns are and have been having a detrimental impact on the world's forests because there have either been little or no police, forest rangers or wildlife conservationists patrolling forests to stop things like deforestation.
From the WWF's new report, it seems that rainforests which were already disappearing at an alarming rate and were already vulnerable to deforestation and forest fires - such as the Amazon rainforest and the Indonesian rainforest - has suffered the worse, as those two rainforests have seen significant increases in deforestation since the lockdowns began in March.
Some of the world's most endangered wild animals live in these rainforests, such as Sumatran tigers live in these rainforests and rely on the forests for their survival. Therefore, the world's lockdowns are putting endangered animals even more at risk of seeing their habitat destroyed.
It's not just animals which are at risk, indigenous tribes are also at risk from land grabs.
We can't protect the world's rainforests and most endangered animals that live within them by locking people up in their houses who usually protect the forests and animals.
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