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Deforestation

Level:
A-Level
Board:
AQA, Edexcel, IB, OCR

Last updated 31 Jul 2018

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The removal of long-established woodland is known as deforestation (the opposite – replanting a forest is ‘reforestation’ while establishing a new forest where one has not existed for a significant period of time is ‘afforestation’).

Deforestation can be conducted deliberately – usually for economic reasons – or by natural environmental processes.

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