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Causes and impacts
of Deforestation in
Tropical rainforests
- Road building
- Economic
- Helps
country to
develop
economically.
- Social
- Improve
communications
within the country.
- Environmental
- Leads to
further
deforestation.
- can cause
soil erosion
and
flooding.
- population
pressure
- Social
- Urban dwellers
have more space,
Amerindians lose
space to live
- Urban dwellers-
People who once lived
in a city move away to
live in a forest.
- Environmental
- Trees are cleared
to make land for
new settlements
- Economic
- Urban dwellers can
earn some money buy
cutting trees down
and selling them to
the market.
- Commercial
logging
- Economic
- Trees are
felled to
make
money
- Create
jobs.
- Social
- The quality of life
for some local
people improves as
there are more jobs
- Environmental
- Without tress
there's no leaf fall
so there is no nutrient
supply to the soil,
which makes it less
fertile
- Slash and
burn
(Farming)
- Social
- Maintain
Amerindian
lifestyle and
culture
- Economic
- This is subsistence
farming- growing
crops to live off
rather than to trade.
- Environmental
- Only
small area
is cleared
- The forest is
allowed to
regenrate and
recover.
- Debt
repayment
- Environmental
- The rainforest absorbs
carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere,but
clearing the tress and
burning them just adds
to the problem.
- Social
- Amerindians have
watched their land
and way of life
disappear.
- Economic
- Brazilian
government
paying debts by
destroying
rainforest.
- The loss of so much forest has helped to
contribute to global warming
- Mineral
extraction
- Environmental
- Massive amount of
rainforest cleared. CO2
released into the
atmosphere which
causes global warming.
- Social
- Provides
jobs for local
people.
- Destroys the traditional
Amerindian way of life
- Economic
- Minerals
are mined
and sold to
make
money.