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Commercial logging is the single largest cause of rainforest de-struction, both directly and indirectly. Other activities destroying the rainforest, including clearing land for grazing animals and subsistence farming. The simple fact is that people are destroying the Amazon rainforest and the rest of the rainforests of the world because “they can’t see the forest for the trees.Sadly, most of the real profits of the timber trade are made not by the developing countries, but by multinational companies and industrialists of the Northern Hemisphere.
More and more rainforest is destroyed to meet the demands of the developed world's paper industry, which requires a staggering 200 million tons of wood each year simply to make paper. If the present rate continues, it is estimated that the paper industry alone will consume 4 billion tons of wood annually by the year 2020
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LastestRainforests have evolved over mil-lions of years to turn into the incred-ibly complex environments they are today. Rainforests represent a store of living and breathing renewable natural resources that for eons, by virtue of their richness in both animal and plant species, have contributed a wealth of resources for the survival and well-being of humankind. These resources have included basic food supplies, clothing, shelter, fuel, spices, industrial raw materials, and medi-cine for all those who have lived in the majesty of the forest. However, the inner dynamics of a tropical rainfor-est is an intricate and fragile system. Everything is so interdependent that upsetting one part can lead to un-known damage or even destruction of the whole. Sadly, it has taken only a century of human intervention to destroy what nature designed to last forever.
Flipbook#Commercial logging is the single largest cause of rainforest destruction, both directly and indirectly. Other activities destroying the rainforest, including clearing land for grazing animals and subsistence farming. The simple fact is that people are destroy-ing the Amazon rainforest and the rest of the rainforests of the world because "they can't see the forest for the trees.Sadly, most of the real profits of the timber trade are made not by the developing countries, but by multina-tional companies and industrialists of the Northern Hemisphere.
