Sentence examples for clearance of trees from inspiring English sources

The systematic clearance of trees from the Amazon forces wildlife into ever-smaller patches of ground.

It would involve an "enhanced level of clearance" of trees and vegetation from the railway banks along 20,000 miles of lines in the UK, in an attempt to deal with costly delays to services and improve safety.

Land development contributes to the clearance of large trees that are sometimes offset with many smaller trees as compensatory wildlife habitat.

Intensive settlement of the plains has long since led to the clearance of the trees to make way for cultivation.

A detailed cost benefit analysis showed that clearance of the trees was justified because the cost of clearance was much less than the value of benefits from the improved water supply (van Wilgen et al. 1996).

The surveys are likely to involve mass clearance of vegetation and trees in almost 4,000 hectares of black-throated finch habitat, Greenpeace said, and will have a "significant impact" on the species.

The impact of land use change on rates of soil loss, and in particular the impact of land clearance (i.e., removal of trees and vegetation) and cultivation on erosion rates, have been extensively documented.

Every year both of the gorge's owners contribute funds towards the clearance of scrub bush and trees from the area.

Senior politicians have been in discussions with the publicly owned company over the scale of its vegetation clearance after the Guardian revealed last week millions of trees are at risk.

At clearance, trees were retained, simulating traditional retention of trees by farmers: Terminalia superba, which has a similar growth form, is a commonly retained species in farmers' esep fields in the region (Carrière 1999).

As his power grew he inaugurated what he called a Four-Point Programme--of mass sterilization, slum clearance cum tree planting, abolition of dowries, and extension of literacy.