ABSTRACT
Even after millions of years of evolution on separate continents, some related species share multiple similarities due to the stability of the established forests they reside in. Forests also play a key role in atmospheric interchange. Periods of warming temperatures resulted in excess carbon dioxide, oxygen vapor, and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and longer growing seasons, which produced more trees. Although numerous forest ecosystems are closely regulated by home countries, the continuing fast pace of clear-cutting in regions such as the tropics is having a perilous impact on native animal species, especially primates-humans' closest relative. Two modern accounts, one in India and one in Australia provide examples of approaches that take into consideration social, economic, and political conditions. A 2006 British government report titled the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concluded that forests are an essential component for economic and ecological stability, as well as critical for carbon storage.
