In Western Kenya highlands of Africa, there is a rapid increasing growth rate in the human population. Historically, these highland areas have been known as a malaria free zone. Studies show that due to the growth in population, the demographic pressures eventually lead to deforestation and land use changes to create land for agricultural cultivation. These open spaces can increase temperatures that can create a more suitable breeding habitat for Anopheles mosquitoes. Thus, increasing the possibility of an outbreak of malaria to occur in the highlands. Deforestation is a clearance of a forest which include the cutting down of trees. Trees are important because it can run the process of photosynthesis, which is able to use light energy from the sun to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen. The leaves in trees are the ones that take in the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produces the oxygen we use to breathe. If trees are being cleared from the forest it releases the stored carbon into the atmosphere. This becomes problematic because having too much carbon in the atmosphere leads to global warming. Global warming tends to help mosquitoes thrive in rising temperatures. The chances of having an outbreak of malaria increase at this point because more Anopheles mosquitoes are beaming more active during these circumstances. …show more content…
They are multicellular and eukaryotic cells because they contain a nucleus. Studies prove that male mosquitoes do not feed on the blood of humans, but it is the female Anopheles mosquitoes that do because it uses the protein and iron the blood has to help her produce eggs. During the feeding process, female Anopheles mosquitoes are able to transmit any type of disease, they carry, such as Malaria. This life threatening disease transfers parasites into the human host, which affects the liver cells before destroying the red blood cells necessary for spreading oxygen throughout the