How are rainforests being destroyed?

Answer 1

1. Cattle Ranching

Many rainforests in the Central and Southern America have been burnt down to make way for cattle farming, which supplies cheap beef for North America, China and Russia. It is estimated that for every pound of meat that is produced, 200 square feet of rainforest is being destroyed. In the past 20 years Costa Rica has lost the majority of its forests to beef cattle ranching. This is known as slash and burn farming and is believed to account for 50% of rainforest destruction. But the land doesn't last forever; the soil without the forest will soon become dry and crusty. The cattle farmers then have to move on and destroy some more land to keep their cattle alive.

2. Logging

Logging is believed to be the second largest cause of deforestation. Timber companies cut down trees such as mahogany and teak and sell them to other countries to make furniture. Smaller trees are used to produce charcoal. Large areas of the forest are cut down in one go and the most valuable trees are used for timber and the rest of them for wood chipping.

3. Agriculture

Much of the fruit and cereals we buy from tropical countries have been grown in areas where rainforests used to live. The trees are being cut down to make way for vast plantations where products such as bananas, palm oil, pineapple, sugar cane, tea and coffee are grown.

Palm oil is in our every day products such as: Ben & Jerry's, McDonald's, some milk, cookies, crackers, popcorn, frozen dinners, low-fat dairy, candy, soap and cosmetics.

4. Mining

More Developed Countries (America and United Kingdom) are demanding minerals and metals such as diamonds, oil, aluminium, copper and gold which are found in the ground below rainforests. Poisonous chemicals are sometimes used to separate the waste from the minerals, for example mercury, which is used to separate gold from the soil and debris with which it is mixed. These chemicals often find their way into rivers, polluting water supplies which local people depend on, killing fish and other animals that feed on them, like orang-utans.

Answer 2

Because they are using it for wood and paper and stuff but they are ending the lives of animals and people and changeing endangerment to extinction every single day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O.K I'm done

Answer 3

u get a chainsaw and cut it down retard