causes of deforestation

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3% in for logging

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subsistence farming

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deforestation is the removal of trees from a large scale area

road building

there is a positive to road building because it links community to the city so the residence can travel for work

farming

5% arable crops

36 football field amount of trees are lost every minuet in the amazon

70% commercial cattle ranching

20% subsistence farming

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hydroelectric power

sections of the amazon river have been damned off so hydro electric power but this means you will have to flood some of the amazon to make the damn possible

mining

mining for gold,iron and oil is most commonly extracted form the amazon

the amount of trees lost has dipped during the years but now it is rising back up again so it needs to stop

in 2008 deforestation increased from 12,000 to 13,000 hectares

2% is for mining

the amazon rain forest is located in south america in the country of Brazil and the oceans that boarder it is the Atlantic ocean. Most of it is located in Rondonia which is in the west of Brazil

rondonia used to have 208,000 squares of rain forest and over the last 30 years it has been rapidly decreasing

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commercial farming

large plantations created in the space cleared for example oil pineapple and sugarcane (most has been for soybean cultivation)

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ranching involves clearing an area of rainforest to make room for cattle. as this impacts the nutrient cycle, the land can only sustain herds for a shord period of thime and moved to new land Brazil is a major supplier of beef (exported 1.82 million tons in 2019

the biggest impact of deforestation is farming this is because the cattel constantly need moving grounds and they need grass to eat and that will require more land and therefore cutting more and more trees down