Deforestation
- Created by: Megan1404
- Created on: 13-05-16 09:16
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- Deforestation
- Logging
- Exploitation of resource as it is lucrative
- Other vegetation is destroyed to get to certain trees
- Commercial farming
- Mining
- Vast areas cleared allowing mining to occur
- Rich in minerals
- Ranching
- Huge cattle ranches
- Lucrative industry
- Erode soil
- Huge cattle ranches
- Subsistence farming
- Only enough to feed cattle/community
- Clear areas for farming soil as presumed fertile (actually infertile)
- Process starts again as farmers can't afford to go anywhere else
- Damming
- Destroyed species of plants and animals
- Displaces people
- Provides power for industries
- Logging
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