In slash-and-burn agriculture, forest will typically be cut months before a dry season.
An example is the process where children learn slash-and-burn agriculture by being present in the situation and contributing when possible.
However, it is threatened by habitat loss because of slash-and-burn agriculture.
But illegal logging and slash-and-burn agriculture has cut it to less than half that size.
With a growing human population, the forest is being lost to slash-and-burn agriculture and illegal logging.
Apparently much of the rain forest is being chopped down because of slash-and-burn agriculture.
Such slash-and-burn agriculture is adequate for the needs of small villages away from larger urban centres.
But in the last few decades, half of it has been lost to logging and slash-and-burn agriculture.
Those in the south combined slash-and-burn agriculture with hunting.
There is evidence that the area around Mayapan was regularly used for slash-and-burn agriculture.