Sentence examples for clear rainforest from inspiring English sources

Securing a licence to clear rainforest is often easier than buying up and consolidating smallholdings.What hope of survival have forests, especially the tropical sort, most precious and most threatened?

However, supported by American airstrikes and artillery, the South Vietnamese successfully fought their way out, and by 10 10 the Viet Cong were reported to have withdrawn north-east to the clear rainforest strip known to the Australians as the "Light Green", after suffering heavy casualties during five hours of fighting.

Furthermore, the shift is consistent with the direction of morphological change observed in A. virens when humans clear rainforest [14].

And much of the palm oil in these products comes from plantations built on clear-cut rainforest land.

Obviously, this can be quite the undertaking for the biggest chains, but even some of the largest companies will not source beef from locations that are clear-cut rainforest or will switch to sustainable palm oil providers.

"Widespread, illegal burning to clear rainforests and peatlands for palm oil and pulp and paper plantation expansion is unfortunately a well-established yearly ritual in Sumatra".

Soy-derived feed may be produced on, or indirectly contribute to expansion on to, cleared rainforest land.

In the 1970s and 1980s they organised the opposition to the big landowners who kept rubber-tappers in indentured servitude and cleared rainforest for large-scale ranching.

Discusses Salgado's Instituto Terra in Brazil which has planted seven hundred and forty-thousand trees on cleared rainforest land… The first stop on the voyage was Diego Ramirez, a group of small islands south of Cape Horn.

They became a staple only after the men who in the late 19th century founded the United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita) figured out how to get bananas to American tables quickly — by clearing rainforest in Latin America, building railroads and communication networks and inventing refrigeration techniques to control ripening.

We compiled a list of these consequences from the literature, and used them to assess plantation scenarios proposed for cleared rainforest landscapes in tropical and subtropical Australia.