Question

#4 Causes of Deforestation

Answer 1

Answer:

• Natural causes as hurricanes, fires, parasites and floods
• Human activities as agricultural expansion, cattle breeding, timber extraction, mining, oil extraction, dam construction and infrastructure development.
• Insufficient political actions and governance failure as inadequate land tenure system, corruption, wrong public administration investments
• Political and socio-economic causes as population growth, military conflicts and climatic changes

Answer 2

The causes of deforestation

Deforestation causes can either be direct or indirect.

Among direct causes are:

Natural causes as hurricanes, fires, parasites and floods

Human activities as agricultural expansion, cattle breeding, timber extraction, mining, oil extraction, dam construction and infrastructure development.

Among indirect causes are:

Insufficient political actions and governance failure as inadequate land tenure system, corruption, wrong public administration investments

Political and socio-economic causes as population growth, military conflicts and climatic changes.