1. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion ANSWER How do you think cattle cause soil erosion? Hillsides are cleared of trees so that cattle can graze. This weakens the ground on the hillside.

2. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion What do you think this image has to do with soil erosion on the hillside? ANSWER. Most of the buildings in Nepal are made of wood or have a wooden framework. Local men rely on the wood for their livelihood. If the trees weren’t cleared from the hillside to use in the building trade then these men would have no jobs.

3. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion What do you think this image has to do with soil erosion on the hillside? ANSWER Only a tiny amount of electricity reaches the villages and there is no oil, coal or gas nearby. This means that the villagers have to rely on wood as their main source of fuel. Trees are cleared from the hillside to meet this demand.

4. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion Why do you think the planting of crops cause soil erosion? ANSWER Hillsides are cleared of trees so crops can be planted. This weakens the ground on the hillside.

5. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion What do you think this image has to do with soil erosion on the hillside? Most of the buildings in Nepal are made of wood or have a wooden framework. The trees need to be cleared from the hillside to be used in the building of these structures. ANSWER

6. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion How can cooking be to blame for soil erosion on the hillside? Most of the cooking in the villages is done using chopped wood for the fires underneath the pots. ANSWER

7. NGfL CYMRU GCaD www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Soil Erosion Why do you think this image has a red border when all of the others have a green one? ANSWER This image shows the consequence of soil erosion - all of the other images are causes of that erosion. Here we can see that part of the mountainside slipped into the river Solu because the soil was eroded. Trees had been cut down and it weakened the soil.