Edexcel GCSE Geography A · 1GA0
Specification 3.5 · Paper 1
Revise: Economic and Social Causes of DeforestationCattle ranching is an important example in the Amazon Basin. Ranchers need extensive areas of pasture for cattle, so demand for beef encourages forest clearance. Vegetation may be cut and burned to prepare the land: this is slash and burn, a clearance method rather than a separate economic motive.