Everybody would think that deforestation is mainly caused due to population increase, economic purposes etc. But do you know that deforestation is caused due to war? As stated in Wikipedia, deforestation article under military section, it says that ” in the Vietnam war with Japan, forest are cleared to cease the enemy’s wrath.”
Why? The first reason was, it took many years to grow a forested area. Besides, Forest provide man with alot of benefits, such as timber, medical herbs and spices and also, a source of food too. The another reason was it is a easy and fast method to cease your opponent. As you know, It took many years to grow a tree, but it only took less than 1 minute to chop it down.
The forested area was heavily destroyed which only mud and maggots are left behind. Everything was gone in a matter of minutes! Due to the fact that war does not happen that frequent, that means deforestation that happens by war is only a small percentage.
Reference link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation#Military_context
