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If forests are cut, what effect would it have on the lives of human beings as well as on wildlife?


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Deforestation:

Cutting of trees and decrease in forest areas across the world by human activities refers to deforestation.

The impacts of deforestation on the lives of human beings as well as on wildlife are as follows:

  1. Increase in soil erosion.
  2. Changes in climatic conditions.
  3. It will also lead to a change in the climate.
  4. Decrease in the atmospheric humidity.
  5. Deforestation results in the extinction of species, which is due to the lack of food, habitat etc.
  6. Deforestation also affects human life, which is due to the deprivation of the benefits of trees, wild animals, and forests.

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