And finally, cutting trees in large numbers affects indigenous people. As habitats are destroyed and species extinct, the indigenous communities who live there and depend on the forest to sustain their way of life are also in danger. Indigenous tribes entirely rely on the forest. It provides them with food, medicine, and shelter. Their whole lifestyle can be affected by deforestation because they will be pushed from their territories in this way. It will force them to contact outsiders. Rates of disease, alcoholism, malnutrition and suicide skyrocket as a result. In other words, deforestation is killing indigenous people by destroying the land they live in. …
