what are the causes of deforestation?mntion any five points

 Causes of defforestation :
* Land for roads, expansion of towns/cities, peoples houses
* Land for graizing animals
* Slash and burn style small agriculture for subsistence farming 
* Land for large scale cash crop farming                                                                                                                          * 
Clearance to use wood as a resource and sell. 
Illegal logging of hardwoods to sell

 Causes of defforestation :
* Land for roads, expansion of towns/cities, peoples houses
* Land for graizing animals
* Slash and burn style small agriculture for subsistence farming 
* Land for large scale cash crop farming
* Clearance to use wood as a resource and sell. 
* Illegal logging of hardwoods to sell

1 the main reason is increasing population and ut down for making houses and agriculture .

2 Subsistence farming is responsible for 48% of deforestation; commercial agriculture is responsible for 32% of deforestation; logging is responsible for 14% of deforestation and fuel wood removals make up 5% of deforestation.

3 Some argue that poor people are more likely to clear forest because they have no alternatives, others that the poor lack the ability to pay for the materials and labour needed to clear forest.

4 By the 1990s the majority of deforestation was caused by industrial factors, including extractive industries, large-scale cattle ranching, and extensive agriculture.

5 Other causes of contemporary deforestation may include corruption of government institutions , the inequitable distribution of wealth and power,and urbanization.

Cause of Deforestation

1) Population explosion

Large areas of forests have been cleaned for agriculture, factories, road and rail tracks, industries, mining and quarrying have seriously affected the forest.

2) Fires

Forest fires destroy trees, seeds and the animal life.

3) Pests

Many kinds of insect pests destroy forests by eating the shoots and spreading diseases.

4) Grazing and gnawing mammals

These animal seat, trample the young plants, and damage their trunks and roots.

5) Weather

Storm and snow damage the forests. These natural forces are beyond human power to control.

6) Dams

Barriers constructed across rivers to prevent floods submerge and kill large tracts of forests.

7) Jhuming (Shifting cultivation)

In certain parts of India, forests are burnt and the ash is mixed with the soil and the land used for cultivation.

1. FIRE:Fire releases carbon dioxide and clouds of soot that can prevent normal rainfall. 

2.AGRICULTURAL EXPAINSION:Large-scale agriculture is the main economic factor behind deforestatation.

3.CUTTING DOWN TREES: cutting down trees for furniture.etc , for humans luxry is the most important factor.

4.MINING:Many forested areas are rich in minerals and therefore vulnerable to deforestation. 

5.ROAD BUILDING:Road construction is the infrastructure development that contributes most to deforestation because roads encourage immigration and the spread of agriculture into forests, particularly in remote areas where property rights are unclear or poorly regulated. 

Deforestation is caused by humans and natural changes on earth. 

On the natural side, as the tectonic plates have moved, mountains form and erode, rainfall patterns change, and forests respond to these changes over long periods of time. If a place was wet and warm enough for one type of tree, but the climate changed, such as during an Ice Age, those trees might not be able to continue to live in that place. Another tree might fare better, or none at all. 

Humans, termites, woodpeckers, forest fires, wood rot, fungus, competition with other plant life for sunlight, erosion, mudslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, floods, and natural life cycles. 


Human causes of deforestation mainly include 

• cutting trees for using the wood, called timber harvesting or logging, and 
  
• clearing forests to make way for agriculture of plants and/or animals. 
  
• Forests may be cut down to make room for expanding cities, too.
• When people need to expand their space they tear down unused places, rip up trees from their homes, kill animals ' habitats, and not even use the wood. 
  
• building new roads, cattle ranching etc.
• Urban sprawl
• logging 
  
• mining 
  
• infrastructure 
  
• plantation - crops 
  
• wood or timber 
  
• urbanization 
  
• cultivation 
  
• the reason behind is the metro cities are becoming bigger and bigger day by day. the people from villages are coming to big cities because they are not getting the facilities in the villages which they need. so to make houses the trees are been cutting down, so to make houses, malls, cinemas etc. for the people.

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On the natural side, as the tectonic plates have moved, mountains form and erode, rainfall patterns change, and forests respond to these changes over long periods of time. If a place was wet and warm enough for one type of tree, but the climate changed, such as during an Ice Age, those trees might not be able to continue to live in that place. Another tree might fare better, or none at all.

Humans, termites, woodpeckers, forest fires, wood rot, fungus, competition with other plant life for sunlight, erosion, mudslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, floods, and natural life cycles.


Human causes of deforestation mainly include

• cutting trees for using the wood, called timber harvesting or logging, and
  
• clearing forests to make way for agriculture of plants and/or animals.
  
• Forests may be cut down to make room for expanding cities, too.
• When people need to expand their space they tear down unused places, rip up trees from their homes, kill animals ' habitats, and not even use the wood.
  
• building new roads, cattle ranching etc.
• Urban sprawl
• logging
  
• mining
  
• infrastructure
  
• plantation - crops
  
• wood or timber
  
• urbanization
  
• cultivation
  
• the reason behind is the metro cities are becoming bigger and bigger day by day. the people from villages are coming to big cities because they are not getting the facilities in the villages which they need. so to make houses the trees are been cutting down, so to make houses, malls, cinemas etc. for the people.
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Four Main Causes of deforestation in India During British Rule

The causes for deforestation in India during British rule were:

(i) Increase in population, leading to growth in demand for food, and extension of land under cultivation at the expense of forests.

(ii) Colonisation by the British encouraged production of commercial crops.

(iii) Increased demand for timber due to expansion of railways and for ship building purposes.

(iv) Large areas of forests were also cleared to make way for plantation crops.