More people means more forest cleared for shifting cultivation, and bigger herds of goats and cattle browsing the vegetation and compacting the soil.

BBC: You are in: Sci/Tech

Ever-increasing swathes of virgin forest are being felled to provide cultivation space for biofuel crops.

CNN: Biofuel: Green savior or red herring?

In Slovenia, untamed forest still exceeds land that has been brought under cultivation.

BBC: Snowbound Slovenia

Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.

UNESCO: EDUCATION