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Forest destruction

Conversion of forest to non-forest for human useAnnual deforestationDeforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Maranhão state, 2016Deforestation in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia to make way for an oil palm plantation in 2007Deforestation in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, 2009Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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