What is likely to happen in the future to that ecosystem?

 As mentioned earlier, human impact plays a large role in the rainforest ecosystem. The two major human impacts are slash-and-burn agriculture and logging. If the decree, passed in 2010, manages to prevent all illegal logging and poaching from taking place, it will eliminate one of the major problems. Nonetheless, if slash-and-burn agriculture continues to occur, the forest will still continue shrinking in size, though at a slower rate. Even worse, if the decree is ignored, the rainforest will continue to decline and shrink in size. In this case, the rainforest will continue to thin until there is almost no vegetation left to be considered a tropical rainforest. This prospect of the future is a horrifying possibility. In order to maintain the rainforest, we must come up with ways to inhibit human destruction.

Country	Area of Country	Original Forest	Present Forest	Annual Rate of
	(sq km)	Cover (sq km)	Cover (sq km)	Deforestation (sq km)
Bolivia	1,098,581	90,000	45,000	1,500
Brazil	8,511,960	2,860,000	1,800,000	50,000
C. America	522,915	500,000	55,000	3,300
Columbia	1,138,891	700,000	180,000	6,500
Congo	342,000	100,000	80,000	700
Ecuador	270,670	132,000	44,000	3,000
Indonesia	1,919,300	1,220,000	530,000	12,000
Cote D'ivoire	322,463	160,000	4,000	2,500
Laos	236,800	110,000	25,000	1,000
Madagascar	590,992	62,000	10,000	2,000
Mexico	1,967,180	400,000	110,000	7,000
Nigeria	924,000	72,000	10,000	4,000
Philippines	299,400	250,000	8,000	2,700
Thailand	513,517	435,000	22,000	6,000

According to this graph, the tropical rainforest of Madagascar is less than a quarter of its original size and the annual deforestation rate is 2,000 square kilometers per year. If this continues and a set rate, in approximately five years the tropical rainforest will no longer exist. The evidence on this graph suggest that the future of the forest is gloomy.