There are several types and causes of deforestation including intentional clearing for agriculture like soy and palm oil plantations, unintentional clearing from activities like firewood collection, and natural clearing. Deforestation has advantages for industries and profit but disadvantages like destruction of habitats that can cause species loss and affect cultures and poorer countries. The rainforests, especially in Brazil and Indonesia, are heavily impacted by clearing for palm oil and soy resulting in large areas of forest loss each year and increased fires that endanger animals and disrupt ecosystems.

1. Deforestation
Deforestation
December 2011

2. Kinds of deforestation:
- intentional
- unintentional
- natural

3. Two kinds of tree felling:
- fire clearance
- bald slash

4. Reasons and advantages of deforestation
- plant cultivation  monocultures
- Soy (animal food, bio fuels)
- palm oil
- wood for paper
-Production / furniture
industry
- firewood profit
- profit for building lands

5. Why…
- Growing population
-> higher demand
- Poverty
- PROFIT!!!

6. Disadvantages of deforestation
- Destruction of habitats from animals, plants and
humans
→ plants and animals die out
- loss (Verlust) of cultures
- poor countries are often affected

7. Rainforest example
- most affected by deforestation
(Brazil , Indonesia)
- palm oil plantations  Kit Kat
- loss of 4,3 million hectares of forest in the year
- soy
- susceptible to fires
 animals are dying
 ecosystem breaks

8. The life of the
animals is in our
hands
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