The Timber industry lead the way. Several amounts of U.S.A. rainforest in tropical regions have also disappeared because of logging and highway construction. In 1991, the USFS and the Federal Highways Administration announced plans to rebuild a road through Puerto Rico's Caribbean National Forest, El Yunque. Environmental groups around the world are fighting this construction pointing that it would destroy large areas that are habitats to species already at risk like the Puerto Rican parrot. If we conduct a deeper examination of this premise we'll get to the conclusion that the ultimate responsibles for this destructions are the consumers or us.
Cattle ranching is the mayor cause of deforestation in Latin America.
The market for most of the beef raise is the United States of America. The corporation that buys this beef is Burger King. Importing the beef from Latin America save them 5 cents per hamburger. Consequently it also save the consumer some money. If Burger king didn't have any clients they would have no needs for saving the consumer a little less than five cents.