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    Deforestation is an increasing global crisis and is mainly caused by human actions. Forests cover approximately 31% of the area on the planet (Deforestation, n.d.). Deforestation is the destruction of a wide area of forest land into a cleared land that is used for a variety of reasons. The impact on the environment from cutting down, burning and damaging forests is very detrimental and there are severe consequences for the environment and future generations due to deforestation. According to the

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    Deforestation in Australia What is the issue? Australia is among one of the wealthiest nations. It has a small population of almost 24million but has a high rate of extensive deforestation and degradation since the later 18th century during European settlement. Most of Australia, around 7.6million km2,is covered in dry desert unsuitable for forest growth, but the thriving coastal and hills areas have seen decline in forest cover and quality over the last 60 years, especially between 1999 and 200

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    Causes Of Deforestation

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    English SDAIE 10 10 August 2017 Increasing of Deforestation     When people get sick they believe it’s because they didn’t took the precaution they should have taken in order for them not to get sick or anything but in reality it’s the environment that they are living in that is making them sick. At first people say it’s other people that are making them sick, yes is true but what is really causing all this sickness is deforestation. What’s causing deforestation to increase, is it the people in the world

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    The biosphere of the Earth is threatened by deforestation every year due to human expansion. Which is the act of clearing a wide area of tress to a non-forested area. Usually for either agricultural uses, paper usage, or wasteland. Over 30% of the Earth is currently covered in forests. Unfortunately, it is estimated that in 100 years, there will be no forests left. (Rinkesh. 2017)The removal of forests can lead to imbalances ecologically, and environmentally, and it can result in a decrease of the

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    patterns, the wildlife which resides there but all share the abundance of natural wealth including sturdy woods, medicines and spices and are sought out by many. However the long debated question still stands if deforestation is something of the past or an on going and current threat. Deforestation is defined as the intentional or natural clearance of forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land and adverse environment effects. () Today forests still cover roughly 30%

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    Deforestation In Brazil

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    2016 Deforestation When we are looking at the Earth from space, and this a remarkable for us because no direct evidence of animal life at all because when we looking will not see the place what is has green land. That’s mean many countries are cutting the trees. In deforestation in Brazil. The Brazilian government wants to make more land for housing and make people live there. They also, want to timber to make paper, furniture for housing or anythings else. Normal strategies for deforestation are

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    Deforestation Guatemala

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    in The United States. Is anyone really to blame for deforestation in such a big portion of this country? There is not any one specific thing that has created the destruction of forests. Many factors, and many years have gone into this; for an example, agricultural expansion, natural disasters, and logging. I will be explaining how all these factors lead to one main problem, deforestation; and how we can work on fixing this problem. Deforestation is known to be the cutting of trees is vast amounts

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    Deforestation In Japan

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    first time, the country was faced with widespread deforestation. Deforestation was not entirely new. As long ago as 600 AD there had been localized deforestation, mainly in the Kinai region, as the wood there was required for houses, war or even monuments. This didn’t become a serious problem at first as Japan’s population was quite small and there were plenty of forests to use. In fact, most of the population at that time encouraged deforestation so that they could use the cleared land for farming

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    Rainforest Deforestation

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    Entire ecosystems are filled with unique species, and the frightening reality is deforestation takes the habitat out from underneath its inhabitants (Bradford 2015). Forests have been cleared at a rate so astonishingly fast, that over half of all known forests have been compromised. If this type of behavior continues, the natural world will have to be given a new name, because nothing left will be "natural". Rainforests clearly have an outward benefits, from cleaning the air we breathe, to different

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    Wrong With Deforestation

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    quote by president Theodore Roosevelt goes to show that deforestation has been a problem for many years, and that there should be an end put to it. All the beautiful land is being destroyed at a fast rate with nobody replacing the land, and it is only progressing quicker and quicker. The president was right about this problem with nature, and it should be fixed once and for all. There are many interesting facts and knowledge concerning deforestation which will add to one’s already obtained knowledge.

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