Slash-and-burn could be distinctly defined as the large-scale deforestation of acres of forests for agricultural usage.
Despite large-scale deforestation, Sumatra still has millions of acres of unexploited rainforests that provide building materials.
The reasons for such large-scale deforestation are complex.
Further large-scale deforestation is occurring in response to government-sanctioned development projects, many of which involve cash cropping and ranching.
They are threatened by habitat loss following large-scale deforestation and commercial poaching for the wildlife trade.
In Jammu and Kashmir State, northwest of here, an insurgency has led to large-scale deforestation in areas where the administration's grip is weak.
Several reports which spoke of large-scale deforestation and desiccation were coming up, prominent among them being the medico-topographical reports by Ranald Martin, a surgeon.
Even already by several thousand years ago, there was large-scale deforestation.
They are primarily threatened by habitat destruction following large-scale deforestation, and prey depletion through illegal hunting.
In parallel, large-scale deforestation exacerbates pressures on the environment of certain countries.