what is deforestation
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✨ Deforestation ✨✨⏬⏬
Deforestation is the indiscriminate cutting, or over-harvesting, of trees for timber or paper, or to clear the land for agriculture, ranching, construction or other human activities.
♠️ Consequences of Deforestation ✨
- The carbon cycle
- The water cycle
- Soil erosion
- Silting of water courses, lakes and dams
- Extinction of species
- Desertification
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Deforestation :-
The cutting of trees on a large scale to fulfill the needs of man can be termed as deforestation.
Causes Of Deforestation :-
◾ Increase in human population is the main cause behind it. With an increase in population human needs also increases.
◾ Urbanisation is the another reason behind it. Urbanisation increases human needs. For setting up urban area, factories, for raw materials, human start vanishing Forests.
◾ There can be some natural causes too such as forest fire, lighting, flood etc. These natural disaster also leads to a great loss in forests
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