Sentence examples for clearing and burning from inspiring English sources

Slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation (jhum) agriculture involves clearing and burning of forest patches, so the original rainforest communities are effectively obliterated, and succession involves recovery of communities from scratch.

Late October was busy with clearing and burning.

Following clearing and burning, much of the converted land remains in sparse shrub cover.

Initial attempts to control and stem the further expansion of the fungus included chemical treatments, clearing and burning chestnut trees around infestation sites.

During a visit to Indonesia in December, the authors saw the gangs acting freely, clearing and burning large tracts of forests for agriculture.

Volunteers will be asked to do anything from herding goats to setting up festivals to clearing and burning rhododendrons, and, if my experience in Wales is anything to go by, they oblige with great enthusiasm.

Concentrations have risen over the last several centuries at a pace far beyond that seen before humans began intensively clearing forests and burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.

This is the reason the Prettytime came about, the Rusties almost destroyed the earth by clearing land and burning oil.

While the surface subject matter – the end of the world – may be miserable, there is a clear and burning note of hope in the unbreakable bond between father and son which was always at the core of McCarthy's source.

This landscape has been shaped over millenia by disturbances associated with agropastoral land use: clearing, grazing and burning, and by regeneration processes of the natural woody vegetation.

Clear-cutting and burning to make way for palm oil plantations causes health-wrecking air pollution, exacerbates climate change, and destroys some of the planet's richest "hotspots" for biodiversity.