https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Deforestation/deforestation_update3.php#:~:text=Direct%20causes%20of%20deforestation%20are,as%20road%20building%20and%20urbanization.

- agricultural expansion

- Wood extraction

- infrastructure expansion

-Road and Urbanization

-conversion to cropland(taking the trees and cutting them down to turn it into land that can be used as farmland.)

most of these causes work together and are not the sole contributor to the issue.