The sad thing is that this is cone to cut livestock prices. Such restaurants as Burger king use rain forest beef since it is so cheap. Burger King is the better known of all rain forest beef users but not the only one. Most fast food chains are suspected of using rain forest beef along with some supermarkets. However since companies are not required to state where their product originates it makes it very difficult if not impossible to trace who is using what. .
Other times theses lesser developing countries need land to support their own growing populations. These countries are unable to build sky scrappers so they spread their cities into the jungle. These homes are merely shacks not really like a home though. .
All of these matters are from the direct concerns of money. Developing countries hope that these highways will bring in foreign businesses as well as help there own commercial businesses expand and become more efficient. These projects also help in tourism promotion. In regards to agriculture and livestock, developing countries cost less to use that modernized countries such as the United States. These countries cannot afford to build expensive housing so they build tiny shacks for their people but expand into the forest. .
Environmentalists on the other side of the fence argue that animal diversity is being lost. Currently about one species a day is lost from the forest. This could have a drastic affect on the food web. If a certain species of animal becomes extinct then another species dependent on that animal for food will also become extinct and so on. These forest contain the most bio-diversity over any other type of biome in the world. .
An ancient way of life will also be lost as these forest go. These forest are inhabited by the last of the hunting and gathering tribes left in the world. One example of this is the Penan. These people live on the island of Borneo in the Province of Sarawak under the Malaysian government.