Deforestation

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Deforestation
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Main Points

What is deforestation?
What causes deforestation?
Why does deforestation occur?
How does deforestation affect the earth?
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What is deforestation?

• "Deforestation is the inevitable result of the
  current social and economic policies being
  carried out in the name of development." -- from
  An Emergency Call to Action for the Forests and
  Their Peoples (I got this quote from the webpage
  that I liked to on the fallowing page)

• The actual process of deforestation is the
  cutting down and burning of the trees in our
  forests (especially in the rain forest). The use
  of slash and burn is the most common way it is
  done it causes permanent irreversible damage.

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Pictures of Deforestation in action
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What causes deforestation?

• Deforestation is mainly caused by one thing and
  that one thing in Man.
• With the growing population of the world there is
  a much greater demand for additional land and
  food.
• People have gotten greedy, they have not been
  thinking about what they are doing. The are to
  preoccupied with themselves and making money
  rather really thinking about what they are doing
  to the environment.
• Rain forest are also cut down from the wood so
  that it can be made into pulp and paper.

More information on the causes of deforestation!
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Why does deforestation occur?

• Commercial Logging
• Bulldozers
• Road graders
• Logging Skidders
• Cattle Ranching
• Human Settlement
• Towns
• Homes
• Growing Crops
• Flooding

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How does deforestation affect the earth?

• Deforestation has a devastating effect all over
  the world. Its not just where the deforestation
  is occurring either deforestation can affect
  people thousands of miles away from a forest.
• We loose many different things when deforestation
  occurs these things ranger from
• Nutrients
• Animals
• Possible cures for diseases
• And much more (click here to read more about the
  losses deforestation causes)

• Deforestation also causes other problems around
  the world like Global Warming!
• (more info on global warming)