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Logging vs Deforestation - What's the difference?

logging | deforestation |

As nouns the difference between logging and deforestation

is that logging is an act or instance of logging, cutting trees while deforestation is the process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.

As a verb logging

is present participle of lang=en.

logging

English

(wikipedia logging)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of logging, (cutting trees).
  • * 2003 , Svein Jentoft, Henry Minde, Ragnar Nilsen, Indigenous peoples: resource management and global rights
    • The loggings were spread over large areas, but mainly near the few roads that existed.
  • An act or instance of logging, (making an entry in a log).

    • deforestation

    English

    (wikipedia deforestation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

    Antonyms

    * afforestation * reforestation