Deforestation
Title: Deforestation
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 862 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Deforestation
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 862 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Throughout the tropics, rain forests are being cut down. By different methods and for different reasons, people in tropical regions of the world are cutting down, burning, or otherwise damaging the forests. The process in which a forest is cut down, burned or damaged is called "deforestation."
Global alarm has arisen because of tropical rain forests destruction. Not only are we losing beautiful areas, but the loss also strikes deeper. Extinction of many species and
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is a basic way of life for a large part of the population. In Brazil, for example, the average annual earnings of a single person in is US $5400, compared to $26,980 per person in the United States (World Bank, 1998). In Bolivia, which holds part of the Amazon rain forest, the average earnings per person is $800. Farmers in these countries do not have the money to buy necessities and must raise crops for food and to sell.