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Why are rainforests particularly vulnerable to environmental degradation from subsistence farmers ?

A. Because their live hoods depend on feeding their families with the food they grow, which requires fertile land that can be acquired by cutting down the forest and burning the brush.

B. Because farmers supplements their diets by hunting large, edible species, which drive some to extension.

C. Because governments are clearing land For agriculture on an industrial scale

D. Because as farmers move to urban areas, vast tracts of land They once occupied are purchased for logging by international corporations.


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Answer:

C. Because governments are clearing land For agriculture on an industrial scale

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