Highway paving encourages migration and population growth in communities, which can lead to forest clearing and natural resource conflicts. Highway construction has made the Amazon rainforest more vulnerable to fire clearing.
What is Amazon rainforest?
The Amazon rainforest, also known as the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest that covers the majority of the Amazon basin in South America and is part of the Amazon biome.
The rainforest covers 5,500,000 km2 of the 7,000,000 km2 2,700,000 sq mi basin (2,100,000 sq mi).
Thus, Highway paving encourages migration and population growth.
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