Natural Threats-
Natural threats to the rainforest biome include global and regional climate change and shifting rainfall patterns. Global Warming doesn’t have a strong effect on the region, due to the ecological and geographical location near the equator. However, a change in climate, such as an addition of warmer conditions, leads to shifting rainfall patterns which will affect rainforests.

Human Threats-
Human threats to the tropical rainforest result in human population growth. Due to the fast growing human populations that are located in the tropics, sustenance farming has a direct impact on the rainforest. Rainforest soils are cleared for farmland, and because of this, the rainforest soil loses its nutrients, which results in the clearing of more forest trees for more soil. Industrialized agriculture is another threat is another human threat, which mostly consists of logging (using tropical trees for their prized wood and lumber; sometimes used to make toilet paper). Because of these threats, the rainforest is no longer able to evaporate as much water though transpiration, and results with less rainfall elsewhere and a drier rainforest.  In addition, the use of fire to clear the remaining land leaves the landscape at a dangerous position for any chance of future protection or rejuvenating.