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(a) Write the percentage of land area that was covered by forests by the end of the last century.
(b) Describe any two practices that led to deforestation.
(c) State the consequences of deforestation.
(d) Suggest a method to overcome deforestation.
Answers (1)
(a) 19.4%
(b)
- Trees are axed for timber, firewood, land for industrial requirement.
- Slash and burn agriculture.
- Habiatat loss and fragmentation- cleaning of forest land into grass land for raising cattle.
(c)
- Causes loss of biodiversity.
- Distrubance in hydrological cycle and biochmical cycle.
(d) Reforestation or any other appropriate alternative.
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