Many laws are being enforced in order to protect the rainforest by prohibiting the slash-and-burn farming technique and things like it. Agencies around the world are raising money and awareness of the impacts of deforestation on the entire world, specifically that deforestation causes global warming, which affects climates and many ecosystems around the world. Governments are also increasing the size of protected areas in order to reserve what land still remains untouched by the outside world.