Soil erosion, resulting from farming steep slopes and clear-cutting forests, has produced runoff that has damaged many of Samoa's lagoons and coral reefs.
The Weyerhaeuser Company in Federal Way, Wash., for instance, has received adverse publicity over the years for clear-cutting forests, but challenging such policies is generally not on the ethics officer's plate.
In the last two years, in part because Habitat for Humanity is interested in "green buildings," Brooklyn Woods has been using materials like bamboo, a fast-growing and thus rapidly renewable wood, and domestic hardwoods supplied by companies that avoid practices like clear-cutting forests.
Clear-cutting forests leads to rapid nutrient depletion and soil erosion.
Clear-cutting forests often ends in massive soil erosion and flooding that threatens smaller plants, animals, and humans alike.
To meet global demand for palm oil, its producers are clear-cutting forests to make way for plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia, where most of the world's palm oil originates.
Bottom trawling does not mean just taking cod; it is like clear-cutting forests but underwater.
Financial mechanisms were developed to prevent clear-cutting forests, but the details were left out.
