Causes of Deforestation

•       Natural Causes:

1. Natural Phenomena: Within this group, causes such as floods, hurricanes, as well as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions are associated; since it is mainly fire and intense wind that generates total deforestation in many types of environments.

•        Artificial Causes:

1. Available land: This is among the first causes generated by the man that leads to the destruction of the soil from deforestation; since the inhabitants of the zones do it to get more space available for different causes, from the cultivation and the wood industry to also have areas for the construction of urbanizations.
2. Wood industry: Men also use the felling of trees to create very useful items in daily life, such as for paper extraction; furniture and building materials, etc.
3. Consumer items: this serves to get palm oil; as well as for cleaning items, hygiene products and even for the creation of lower cost cosmetics.
4. Forest fires: More and more trees are being lost every year in many types of environments and in all countries of the world; This happens because of the perpetration of the sun's rays that affect deserts or arid areas with abundant vegetation.    

                   

An example of an available land.

Cutted wood.

Palm oil, which comes from the palm tree.

A forest fire.