NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

Detailed explanation-2: -Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land.

Detailed explanation-3: -Clearcutting is an extreme logging method in which resilient natural forests are harvested and replaced with man-made tree plantations that do not replicate the ecosystem services of a healthy forest. Since 1997, over 1 million acres in California have been decimated by clearcutting and related logging practices.

Detailed explanation-4: -Selective logging is a more ecologically sustainable practice than clear-cutting, which entails removing all trees at the same time. The idea behind selective logging is to maintain an uneven or all-aged forest of trees varying not only in age, but in size and species as well.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many forested regions in North America and Europe have been altered by clear-cutting. Elsewhere, clear-cutting of the rain forests in Borneo, the Amazonian rain forest, and the Great Bear rain forest in British Columbia is decimating these ancient ecosystems.