... for export. The UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) said in it's 1990 report that population growth may have been responsible for as much as eighty percent of the forest land cleared between 1971 and 1986 to make room for agriculture, cattle ranching, houses, roads and industries(Ramphal, 1992, p.55). It is estimated that in that period nearly sixty million hectares of forest were ... converted to farmland and a similar amount of forest was put to non-agricultural uses. This is equivalent to the mass of twelve hundred square metres of forest added to the population(Ram...

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... year 2050.(WWF) There are many reasons that deforestation occurs. Commercial Logging, Ranching, and farming are the main causes of deforestation. The UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) said in it's 1990 report that population growth may have been responsible for as much as eighty percent of the forest land cleared between 1971 and 1986 to make room for agriculture, cattle ranching ... , houses, roads and industries (Ramphal, 1992, p.55) Commercial Logging is accounting for the elimination of about 20,000 square feet of tropical forests per year. The increasing demand f...

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... . Between 1985 and 1987, biologists captured the last nine California Condors in the wilderness and mated them. In 1992 the biologists tried to return the birds to the wilderness because the population of the birds had grown. By 1997 the population of the birds had increased to 133, which 33 of them live in the wilderness. The American Bald Eagle was once plentiful near lakes and ... coasts in North America, but because hunters prized the bird's white head and ... rhinoceros is also threatened by habitat fragmentation, which is when the contiguous habitats can be fragmented resulting in...

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