Sentence examples for arc of deforestation from inspiring English sources

The environment ministry focuses its attention on an arc of deforestation from the north-east to the south-west.

"For now, the problem is along the arc of deforestation in the south and east where there is a long history of forest loss.

And little of it lies within the "arc of deforestation"—the border between existing farmland and forest where slash-and-burn farming is most tempting.

Paving the BR-163 could lay waste to thousands of square kilometres of forest, carrying deep into the jungle the "arc of deforestation" through which it passes.

THE state of Pará occupies a vast and woefully lawless swathe of the Amazon, forming the eastern curve of the "arc of deforestation".

Located in an arc of deforestation that stretches from Mato Grosso, through Acre and Rondônia across the Bolivian border, Lábrea is among the most remote, dangerous and important frontlines of environmental protection on the planet.

Mauro Pires, director of government's department of policy to combat deforestation agrees: "The arc of destruction is exactly where the roads are".

It found significantly decreased rates of deforestation.

The process of deforestation is simple.

This is not the only source of images of deforestation.

HOW reliable are the Brazilian government's estimates of deforestation?