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Cause of deforestation

Definition – deforestation is the chopping down of trees and replacing it with something else.

Causes – There are three main causes.

Here we can see forest chopped down for commercial farming

People who live in the rainforest can make

money from…

Growing crops to sell

Growing crops to eat

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How many trees have been chopped down and how many are left?

Chop or burn? Chopping down a forest with an axe is hard work. It is easier and quicker to burn the forest down. But this produces lots of greenhouse gases.

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Deforestation Answer the following questions.

1. Define deforestation in your own words. 2. What is the biggest cause of deforestation? 3. Wood is used for many things. List three things that people chop

down the wood for? 4. Imagine you want to clear the land. Would you chop down trees or

burn them down and explain your answer? 5. Chopping down the trees is bad for the environment. Give an

example of how this might be. 6. Suggest ways in which people who live in the main forests of the

world could be encouraged not to chop down the trees.

These trees are in a managed wood. That means that they have been grown for the specific purpose of chopping down later for wood.