The Causes Of Deforestation

What is deforestation?

• Taking care of forest.

• The action of clearing large areas of trees .

• Removing one tree.

What is the main cause of deforestation?

• Ranching

• Agriculture

• Logging

• infrastructure

Why do farmers do to cause deforestation?

• clear rainforest land to grow their crops.

• clear large areas of the Amazon to become pastures for their cattle

• making furniture, and providing pulp for paper products

What do loggers do to cause deforestation?

• Use trees to build homes, highways and trade.

• Clear areas for pasture for the cattle.

• used trees for building houses, making furniture, and providing pulp for paper products

Who is destroying the Amazon rainforest by clearing large areas to become pastures for their cattle?

• Farmers

• Logging

• Ranchers

• infrastructure

What is one way we utilize the plants that come from the rainforest?

• For spices

• Food

• Medicine for headaches

• Medicine for cancer treatments

Why can't farmers reuse the same land each year to plant crops?

• They don't have a-lot of money

• They want to clear large areas to become pasture for the cattle.

• The rainforest soil in the Amazon, is not very rich

what is the second cause of deforestation?

• Ranching

• Logging

• Farming / Agriculture

• infrastructure