what do you understand by deforestation
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Deforestation refers to the decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining activities. Greatly accelerated by human activities since 1960, deforestation has been negatively affecting natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and the climate.
The Causes of Deforestation:-
Multiple factors, either of human or natural origin, cause deforestation. Natural factors include natural forest fires or parasite-caused diseases which can result in deforestation. Nevertheless, human activities are among the main causes of global deforestation
Cutting down of trees on a large scale means deforestation . Deforestation leads to global warming,soil erosion etc there things are very harmful . It is a human made problem and a serious issue. we should plant more and more trees to overcome deforestation.