Question

give a brief account of cause of deforestation in India and Brazil and suggest measure for it

Answer 1

Cattle ranching. Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966-1975 to large-scale cattle ranching.

Causes for Deforestation:

Agriculture: Conversion of forests to agricultural land to feed growing needs of people. ...

Commercial logging: ...

Mining: ...

Increase in population: ...

Urbanization and industrialization: ...

Construction of dam reservoirs: ...

Forest fires: ...

Overgrazing:


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Answer 2

Deforestation is one of the major causes to the environmental degradation which is affected by the agents like small farmers, ranches, loggers and plantation companies. There is a broad consensus that expansion of cropped areas and pastures are a major source of deforestation.