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- The cutting of trees in a forest to a large extent is called deforestation.
- This process is led due to the clearing of forests for settlement, agriculture, or business purposes.
- It has become a serious environmental concern and issue with time because of this.
- Some of the main and well-known problems of this action have caused and affected climatic changes, the disappearance of wildlife, soil erosion, greenhouse gas emissions, etc.
- The loss of trees adversely affects every biological life in all possible ways.
- Deforestation has caused desertification and soil erosion, a decrease in groundwater levels, and loss of food and habitat of animals which leads to their extinction.
- This means increasing its forest cover from the current 25% to 33% and restoring 26 million hectares of land by 2030.
- Deforestation has caused a serious impact in the affect of the ecosystem as a whole, word wide.
- The process of development in the world is good however it is seriously increasing deforestation.
- Forest loss and damage are the cause of around 10% of global warming.