Sentence examples for been lost to development from inspiring English sources

Since the late 1700's, the agency said, over half the nation's wetlands have been lost to development and other activities.

The lands that most of these stallions resided on, along with the mares to whom they were bred, have been lost to development.

"Probably by the end of the sesquicentennial, either the land will have been lost to development, or will be too expensive for privatization," he said.

Critics say it will not be enough money to achieve the governor's goal of preserving a million acres of land, and say that on her watch about 60,000 acres have been lost to development each year.

Larry Gross, the executive director of the Coalition for Economic Survival, a tenants' rights organization, estimates that at least 1,000 units of low-income housing have been lost to development over the last five years.

Many of the bogs that produced cranberries in those regions have been lost to development, causing the cranberry to be considered an endangered species in Illinois and threatened in Tennessee.

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.

"Forests are being lost to development and infrastructure; we are cutting a lot and planting so few, so it may be that England is technically deforesting," said Goodall.

If more people grow wildflowers and learn to propagate them, some of the genetic cache will be saved, even as the habitat of wildflowers is lost to development.

Meanwhile, according to the Trust for Public Land, a national conservation group that promotes voluntary land preservation, two million acres a year are still being lost to development.