what is deforestation and its cause ?
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✔✅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.
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Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses.
There are many causes of deforestation. The WWF& reports that half of the trees illegally removed from forests are used as fuel.
Some other common reasons are:
1) To make more land available for housing and urbanization
2) To harvest timber to create commercial items such as paper, furniture and homes
3) To create ingredients that are highly prized consumer items, such as the oil from palm trees
4) To create room for cattle ranching
5) Common methods of deforestation are burning trees and clear cutting. These tactics leave the land completely barren and are controversial practices.