I am 100 against deforestation and using wild nature to bring some economic benefits, but on other hand the only positive thing in deforestation is that people are employed. If deforestation was made illegal, a lot of people would be unemployed and without any income leading to strikes and crisis and the last thing nowadays we need is crisis.
To conclude, I believe that we need to protect wild nature, because natural beauty may be the most obvious, but it offers more imporant benefits than just money.