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Human Influences On the Environment.
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HUMAN INFLUENCES ON THE ENVIRONMENT What is deforestation? Deforestation is the removal of trees and natural vegetation from areas of dense forest or jungle. It is done primarily to obtain space that is essential for agriculture, fuel and building. However, there are many environmental issues that have derived solely from this mass extraction of wood. Wood has always been a primary forest product for human populations and industrial interests. Since wood is an important structural component of any forest, its removal has immediate implications on forest health. Intensive harvests can lead to severe degradation, even beyond a forests capacity to recover. When the soil has been stripped of its nutrients, farmers move further into the forests in search of new land. As forests are destroyed in this way, habitiats are removed from the animals living in them, therefore the biodiversity decreases. Forests also hold a big role in the water cycle as...
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