Study Notes
Deforestation
- Level:
- AS, A-Level
- Board:
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB
Last updated 31 Jul 2018
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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