For example, when humans cut down forests for farming or other uses, the loss of habitat forces chimps to live in close proximity to one another and to other groups.
People also produce CO₂ when they cut down forests for farmland and pasture.
Olam does not dispute it has cut down forests, even those used by great apes.
Urgent need drives people to cut down forests, hunt bushmeat and plunder caves, bringing them into contact with the wild animals thought to harbour the disease, and providing the virus with opportunities to jump to humans.Run-down health facilities are the second link in the chain.
That, in turn, would lower beef prices, reducing the incentives to cut down forests for cattle pasture land.
In addition, countries which have already cut down their forests stand to benefit from money for reforestation.
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An increase in human population, particularly in China and Nepal, has seen the red panda's bamboo forest homes cut down and cleared for timber, fuel and agriculture land, pushing them to more remote, fragmented – and often unprotected – mountain areas.
Forests in Brazil, Russia, Canada and other parts of the world are being cut down or burned by forest fires every day.
That compares to the 0.38 percent, or 14,400 square miles, of forest cut down.
Midnight told the cats that the Clans would have to leave their forest home and find a new place to live, as humans were going to cut down the forest and build a new "Thunderpath" (the cats' word for a road).
