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By kapil Ramburn 10MC Deforestation is the clearance of forest land. Today it's mainly taking place in the LEDCS that have tropical rainforest. According to key geography book 2 pg38 a reliable source dated from 2001 which the notes are good, the rapid clearance on recent years was made deforestation a key global issue. Some estimates suggest that one-fifth of the Amazon forest was cleared between 1960 and 1990. But why do they cut down the forest? From the key geography book 2 the source on page 38 says by the rapid growing population the demand of wood started to go high. The government in Brazil had to resettle some of the many landless people. (This source was reliable because I trust the book, also it is recent as it was published in 2001 and the notes I have used were really good as it was clearly explained) The trans-national companies like Coca...

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