Deforestation mainly being caused by agriculture is a phenomenon influenced by an enormous growth of population, with major intentions to feed the masses. Today, forests are being replaced by large plantations of palm oil trees and rubber while in places like Brazil the current president is in support of the Amazon forest being cleared for cattle grazing, while in many other countries, for grain farming, expanding cities, and many other activities.
And as the population increases, farmers extend to cutting forests to provide more room for their plantations or for grazing livestock. As years go by, almost 18m hectares of forests around the globe are cut down.
Statistics show that in just 40 years, possibly 1bn hectares of forests, a total area equivalent of Europe, has dwindled and that half the world’s rain forests have been razed in a century and it is expected that in more 100 years if such rates persist, the rain forests will be no more