Why is the Amazon rainforest deforestation taking place?

Answer 1

Deforestation is happening because we humans are buying all the wooden furniture which is making companies want to produce more. It is happening because there are not many trees left so they have to cut down the forests.

Answer 2

Well, if you look around, it is happening basically everywhere. People are cutting down trees everywhere for our basic, but wastless needs.
Deforestation is happening in almost all forests in the world. Especially in developing nations like China, India and some underdeveloped nations in Africa are most susceptible
in Mexico y Brazil

Answer 3

Answer

There are two basic reasons. One is the need for more land for farming and mining. The other is the demand for lumber from the trees. Not to mention people are greedy and want gold and rare animals fur.

They Want ;

Scientific Research

Cattle Ranching

Bush Meat

Sugar Plantations

Soy Bean Plantations

Homes For The Indigenous People

Cattle ranching is a big business. burger companies pay lots of money for the beef from the cows.

Answer 4

Forests are being cut down (deforestation) for many reasons, including:

• Clear land for housing,
• Land for grazing cattle,
• Land for mining,
• Land for farming,
• Roads.

Answer 5

Rainforests are primarily cut down or burned by humans to clear land for agriculture and cattle pasture (by burning), timber harvesting for furniture or other products (by cutting). Rainforests may also be cleared for mining or roadbuilding. The two main causes of deforestation in South America are the claiming of lands for agriculture and the exploitation for wood products and by-products. Large areas of rainforest and other green areas are burnt each week or leveled with machines for agriculture and cattle. Many international food companies contribute to this problem, purchasing large areas of rainforest and transforming it for hosting thousands of heads of cattle for supplying their worldwide needs, most often through paper companies. Satellite imaging shows day after day large areas on fire by human hands. Many legal and many illegal wood processing enterprises go further and further into green areas chopping down and processing large trees and destroying the minor vegetation in their way. Local governments have tried to impose some limitations but corruption is a problem. Pollution, mining, farming, and logging (cutting down trees) have all helped to cause the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. in the amazon rainforest over 279000 trees get cut down a year

Answer 6

The biggest impact on the Amazon rain forest is the activities of humans. Growing population needs the space and the trees are cut down because people need jobs and the wood can make a lot of money for lumbering companies. Unfortunately, even the people who depend on the rain forest are the ones contributing to its deforestation.

The major forests of the world - in Europe and in the USA - were destroyed hundreds of years ago for their timber and, after that, used as cleared farmland. That has been why Europe and the USA powered ahead of other nations during the 1800's and 1900's.

Now other countries want to do just what made Europe and the USA great, but they are told - NO WAY! We need your forests to be preserved, so don't cut them down.

But the countries that say these things, and who now have all the benefits of having destroyed their own forests, won't do anything to help the Brazilians to advance their economy without destroying the forests.

There are many possible reasons: cattle ranching - land use - logging - commercial agriculture

They are mostly caused because people use it for agriculture to provide food for other people and to get money. They also use the wood to build houses and buildings and use it as fuel and the clear the land to feed cattle

Answer 7

Some are cleared to harvest the trees themselves, but most are cleared to convert the lands to agriculture.

Answer 8

Mostly for:

- cattle ranching

- aruble farming

- timber

Answer 9

because it is