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Give two reasons to explain as to why we need to conserve our forest resource.
Topic: Forest conservation
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(1) Forests supply valuable products — timber, gums, resins — and livelihoods that would vanish with them. (2) They regulate the temperature and the rainfall and check pollution — the very balance of the environment rests on them.
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