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Overlogging vs Deforestation - What's the difference?

overlogging | deforestation |

As nouns the difference between overlogging and deforestation

is that overlogging is excessive logging while deforestation is deforestation.

overlogging

English

Noun

(-)
  • Excessive logging.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 22, author=Chandler Burr, title=Whole Lot of Non-Scents, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In 1908, a species of Chilean sandalwood vanished from overlogging , and its creamy wood scent vanished with it. }}

    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