Sentence examples for cleared of forest from inspiring English sources

Since the 1960s two-fifths of the municipality has been cleared of forest.

In natural areas the conversion should be confined to areas near the forest margin or on sites that had been cleared of forest.

The devastation was just as bad as I feared: dry, parched land, freshly cleared of forest and planted with rows of scrubby little palm trees.

It lies among land that has been cleared of forest within the last century and is now used to plant maize and graze cattle.

There are tea, coffee, and rubber plantations where the hills have been cleared of forests.

By about 1900 some three-fourths of the land had been cleared of forests, principally for farmland.

Much of India was cleared of forests and its wildlife over centuries, some conservationists living in cities had no qualms seeking the eviction of people from forests.

Aside from the 'normal' deforestation, many areas have been cleared of forests by the armed forces as they considered them to be an excellent hideout for the Taliban.

Study communities are located in rural foothill areas cleared of forests for cash-cropping since the 1960s.

"It was sandy soil and had to be cleared of dense forest," said Rachel Rodgers, the executive director of the Cape May County division of culture and heritage.

Wide areas of the lowland and foreland zones have been cleared of the forests of oak, beech, and hornbeam that once covered Abkhazia.