Rainforests are tropical evergreen forests. The climate is warm and moist all year round and offers an extraodinarily wide range of habitats for living things. Rainforests are being cut down at an alarming rate for two main reasons. Both large commercial farming companies and individual families clear the forest to gain land to cultivate and graze animals. The rainforest soil, though is not really suitable for agriculture. Another reason the forests have been felled is to supply tropical hardwoods for furniture-making and buildings. Woods such as mahogany have been highly prized in wealthy countries for hundreds of years.
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Many areas of tropical rainforest are burned. The result after one or two years is useless, infertile land that is prone to flash floods. Rainwater strips away the topsoil, dumping it into rivers.
resources: Tell me why (Chancellor Press)
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