Thailand is overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture. Subsistence farming is responsible for more than 40 % of deforestation; commercial agriculture is responsible around 32% of deforestation; logging is responsible for 14% of deforestation and fuel wood removals make up only 5 percent of deforestation. The experts don’t agree on whether industrial logging is an important contributor to global deforestation. Some might argue that poor people are more likely to clear forest because they have no alternatives, others that the poor lack the ability to pay for the materials and labour needed to clear forest.
Finally, They found that population increases due to high fertility rates were a primary driver of tropical deforestation in only 8% of cases. Another causes of contemporary deforestation may include corruption of government institutions, the bias distribution of wealth and power, population growth and over population, and urbanization. Globalization is often viewed as another root cause of deforestation because there are cases in which the impacts of globalization, new flow of labor, capital, commodities, and ideas, have promoted localized forest recover