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Why are forests affected by wars?
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Forest are
affected by wars
as they are valuable strategic resources.
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Towers, guard posts, and army camps are all made of wood since it is
simple to maintain them and pull them down if a need arises to move these assets.
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Should it become clear that
woods will fall into enemy hands, the slash and burn policy will be carried out even more firmly.
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This is
done to prevent the denial of resources and areas..
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Such was the
case with the Dutch
when the
Japanese invaded their colony in Indonesia during World War II.
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The
Dutch burned huge acres of forests
in order to
prevent them from falling into Japanese hands.
- But once they did, the Japanese immediately began carelessly plundering the timber trees to meet their own wartime needs. The local ecology would suffer greatly from this behaviour for many years to come.
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