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Anjali asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 9 years ago

How do people destroy rainforests?

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  • 9 years ago
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    The government votes on if they should cut it down, if they do they cut trees down and use the trees for paper, houses etc. :P hope i helped!

  • 9 years ago

    There are many ways to destroy a rainforest. One is caused by "slash and burn" method used by natives, they slash everything and then burn it. That ashes will be provide nutrients for their crops in a short while. After 3-5 years,they will simply moved and find another spot to repeat the cycle again. Another way is by clearing it using heavy machineries for road construction,which is dominant in the amazon basin. Deforestation is also a problem, most rainforest have valuable hardwoods that fetched a high price in blackmarket.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    By cutting down all the trees and not replanting. China in the 80s and 90s nearly wiped out their nation's forests. Great Britain in the 1800s destroyed most of their great forests in order to produce their giant navy.

  • 9 years ago

    Bulldozers. They clear the forests to make pasture land.

  • 9 years ago

    They raze them, destroy and cut them down, burn and run out the animals, acre after acre after acre.

  • 9 years ago

    Um, by cutting the trees down?

  • 9 years ago

    responce

  • 9 years ago

    BY DEFORESTING IT

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