Reasons why deforestation has increased

Trees are demolished for many reasons, but the main motivation would be money. Businesses and farms are destroying acres of land because they need the land to keep up with the production of products that consumers demand. 

Farmers need more land to plant more crops and make more space for increasing numbers in cattle. Soy bean farming is seen as the worst production to be produced on the forests land due to harmful pesticides being used. When there are high volumes of rain, the excess pesticides run into the rivers and the toxic chemicals end up killing the species that live there. 

The main contributor to deforestation is industrial logging. Whether it illegal or legal, the main reason why so many acres of forest is gone is due to those companies. Paper, pulp and timber are made from the logging companies and so they are mainly to blame. It has become such a lucrative industry that roads are now being built to give them more access to remote forests in order for them to gain more trees and more acres.  It is also seen in many countries as a corrupt industry with the governments granting access to the countries forests without any care for the environment or the local people. Most logging companies are also not seen as transparent which leaves people very suspicious of their actions.

(Hallward, J. 2010)

(Greenpeace n.d) (The Amazon. 2007)