1. Agriculture activities : This is one of the major factors that causes deforestation. It is because there are many trees being felled down to grow chops and graze cattle.
2. Logging : Due to the facts that many wood based industries need a huge amount of wood supply and wood is also used as fuel, many trees are being felled down for the wood supplies. Some of these industries are also chopping down wood and cutting down trees illegally.
3. Urbanization : Some trees are felled down just to make spaces for the provisional road as some of the main roads are undergoing maintenance. Forest land is reclaimed to make rooms for more housing and settlements due to overpopulation.
4. Fires : Huge amount of trees are lost due to the forest fires in different portions in the world every year. Fires caused by man or nature results in huge loss of forest cover.
Sources: http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-solutions-of-deforestation.php
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