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(a) What are the various purposes for which the forest trees are cut?
(b) What is the effect of deforestation on wild animals?

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(a) Various purposes for which the forest trees are cut-
1. To make industries, factories, building and houses etc.
2. For firewoods.

(b) Deforestation possesses a very bad impact on wild animals. The following are the main problems faced by the wild family due to deforestation:-

i) Wild animals lose their habitat.
The entire wildlife is dependent on the forest and the trees.a sudden destruction of this habitat badly affects their existence.

ii) Extinction of species.
When a large number of animals belonging to a species die it causes the permanent extinction of that particular species.

iii) The killing of each other

When deforestation occurs on a large scale, animals get more congested. So there is a fight between predators and the prey. This results in the massive killing of the prey.


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