Explain various reasons of deforestation. How has it affected the environment?
There are various reasons for deforestation, some of which are mentioned below:
Agricultural expansion
A combination of forces is responsible for deforestation and the biggest among them is agricultural expansion. Forests are being cleared on an alarming rate due to rising global demand of food grain and the commodities like soybeans and palm oil. Since the beginning of agriculture, there has been a mass reduction in the forests worldwide for agricultural expansion. As per an estimate, over 40% of the forests have already been cleaned worldwide to obtain land to meet the demands for agriculture and wood. Agricultural expansion has left the world much devoid of its original forests.
Forest areas are eliminated for raising commercial crops such as plantation for palm oil. In simple terms, deforestation takes place because forest land is not financially viable.
Due to this trend, there has been widespread destruction of Savannah grasslands as the Savannah vegetation has been cleaned and the wide area has been converted into agricultural land. The grasslands and trees of temperate tropical regions (e.g. the prairies of North America, and the steppes of Russia) have been cleaned.
Forests have been cleared on a large scale and converted into gardens, agricultural lands. Likewise, forest areas have been destroyed in a big
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