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State of the Basin Report - 2003• Forest losses have important environmental consequences as they can cause erosion and watersheddegradation. These changes may reduce water regulation capacities, which in turn could resultin higher incidences of flooding, and declines in water quality and even quantity. The loss ofbio-diversity is another important consequence of deforestation.• The environmental changes that forest losses contribute to can have significant negativeimplications for human activities such as agriculture and fisheries, with reduced land and waterquality constraining crop yields, and feeding into harmful cycles of poverty and overexploitationof the environment.• Loss of forest cover is also a major concern on a social level because forest dwellers and othersoften lose their livelihoods when forests are logged and this, in turn, contributes to socialproblems.200

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