Vast tracts of rain forests are being chopped down everyday leading to a loss of vegetation. How does this affect other organisms?

The destruction of rainforests by humans is affecting all
organisms that live on Earth, including humans in a very profound
manner.

The rainforests have the richest biodiversity of
organisms on the Earth. Scientists predict that up to 75% of all species that are found
on the Earth live in the rainforests. A loss of vegetation is forcing organisms to
relocate. As a larger number of organisms struggle to survive in an ever decreasing
forest cover, species are getting extinct at an alarming rate. Scientists believe that
there are millions of species still to be discovered. The decrease in forest cover could
mean that a large number of species would go extinct even before we discover
them.

In addition to the harm caused by the decline in
forest cover to organisms that live in the rainforests, this rapid deforestation is also
affecting all the other species that live on Earth. This is due to the fact that the
rainforests are one of the largest carbon dioxide sinks on Earth. As they reduce in
size, the rise in carbon dioxide levels is increasing global temperatures. Weather
patterns are changing around the world and sea levels are rising. These and their
accompanying ill-effects have made the survival of organisms on Earth a very difficult
task indeed.