DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The forests are cut down to make way for vast plantations where products such as bananas, palm oil, pineapple, sugar cane, tea and coffee are grown. As with cattle ranching, the soil will not sustain crops for long, and after a few years the farmers have to cut down more rainforest for new plantations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Huge areas of rainforest are destroyed by clearing for farming, timber, roads, hydropower dams, mining, house-building or other development. The problem is it’s often seen as more economically worthwhile to cut the forest down than to keep it standing. We’re working hard to change that perception.

Detailed explanation-3: -Brazil holds about one-third of the world’s remaining rainforests, including a majority of the Amazon rainforest. It is also overwhelmingly the most biodiverse country on Earth, with more than 56, 000 described species of plants, 1, 700 species of birds, 695 amphibians, 578 mammals, and 651 reptiles.