The phrase "avoid destroying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to prevent damage or harm to something, often in contexts related to conservation or careful handling.
Example: "We must find a way to avoid destroying the fragile ecosystem while developing the area for tourism."
Alternatives: "prevent damage to" or "refrain from harming".
We had to become more efficient if we were to avoid destroying ourselves ecologically or through weapons of destruction.
The message to road-builders is unmistakable: try to avoid destroying America's heritage unless it's just too much trouble.
Scientists say the Four Rivers project needs to be stopped to avoid destroying more Ramsar sites and their biodiversity.
From our contemporary double millennium forward, the essential challenge confronting our species will remain how to avoid destroying the human world.
But he said only 60 or so existing cell lines could be used to avoid destroying more human embryos to obtain more stem cells.
The campaign would try to avoid destroying important city services and alienating the civilian population, and would also encourage Iraqi troops to defect.
Birds may not see a regular web, but they spot UV-reflective materials very clearly, thus avoiding destroying the web and the spider's prey.
We therefore linked glutathione to 10 μm TentaGel beads activated with bromoacetic acid via thioalkylation chemistry and then incubated them with a GAD65-GST fusion protein in hopes of avoiding destroying important epitopes in GAD65 during covalent cross-linking.
The defenders tried to avoid completely destroying enemy armour, as the materiel that they retrieved from disabled vehicles was an important source of resupply.
When cleaning the cage, avoid completely destroying the nest.
At bottom they derive from the fact that, in war, two forces, each of which is free to exercise its independent will, meet in an attempt to destroy each other while at the same time attempting to avoid being destroyed.
