Sentence examples for are lost to development from inspiring English sources

Because they have taken so long to evolve, once they are lost to development they are lost forever.

When forests and meadows are lost (to development or farming), places for bees to eat also disappear.

We do recognise that the current planning system is not delivering adequate compensation for habitats and landscapes that are lost to development.

After describing the boreal forest and how 2.5 million acres in North America are lost to development or logging each year, mostly to provide paper to the United States, he projected a picture of a starlit sky on the screen.

"Other welcome changes include the restoration of a clear emphasis on brown-field development and town centre first, alongside recognition for the requirement for equivalent or improved replacement sports facilities, when existing facilities are lost to development.

Conservationists estimate that 3,000 to 5,000 acres are lost to development each year, a figure that could increase if New Jersey, as demographic experts predict, receives another one million residents in the next 20 years.

It was part of the company's Bring Back the Bees campaign, complete with its own hashtag, which sought to create habitat that bees are losing to development, farms and insecticides.

But most of these have now been lost to development.

Of the remaining 5.8 million acres, only about a million acres have been lost to development.

And where farmland is being lost to development at the rate of 2,880 acres a day?

Without public support for their protection, our parks would be lost to development, and with them the biodiversity they foster.