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1. Large scale development projects have contributed to the loss of forests.
2. It has been estimated that since 1951, 5,000sq km of forest has been cleared for river valley projects.
3. Forests are cleared on a large scale to meet the growing needs of industrialization, especially fuel wood and for other forest products and minerals,
4. Mining has contributed to deforestation.
5. Forests are cleared up for projects like Narmada Sagar Project in Madhya Pradesh.
6. Such a massive deforestation certainly has an averse effect on our ecosystem as it disturbs natural habitat of many species.