2. CAUSES FOR DEFORESTATION :
Cutting of trees.
Construction of houses and buildings.
Making furnitures.
Using wood as fuels.
For preparing railway tracks.[In older days].
Forest fires.
Irregular methods of cropping or cultivation.
Mining.
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3. CONSEQUENCES OF DEFORESTATION
Increase in temperature[global warming]due to
green house effect.
Less rainfall.
Higher pollution.
Ground level water will decrease.
Imbalance in nature.
Loss of fertility in soil.
Soil erosion.
Natural calamities[Floods , Droughts]
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