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प्रश्न
Deforestation rate in Africa is twice the average for the rest of the world with more than four million hectares of primary forest disappearing every year. What could be the reasons for this?
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उत्तर
The reasons would be :
- Conversion of forests for subsistence and commercial agriculture.
- Deforestation is done because of commercial logging
- Other activities such as cattle rattling, cash crop plantations, and the construction of dams, roads, and mines.
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