Sentence examples for colossal forests from inspiring English sources
As a result of long stretches of such human habitation, South America's colossal forests may have been a lot smaller at times, with big areas resembling relatively empty savannas.
Nearby is Asher B. Durand's colossal "The Edge of the Forest" (1871), in which an unearthly light seeps through a veil of leaves and clotted green.
Despite the country's conservation policies, which wildlife groups say are among the best in Africa, the logging men dig deeper into the rain forest each day, felling colossal trees, dragging them out with chains and shipping them out on logging roads that lead to where the elephants live.
We crossed into the reserve and flew along limestone cliffs that broke the thick forest like the prows of colossal ships.
Even after 200 years, second growth low elevation temperate forests could not compete with the colossal storage capacity of nature's ancient forests.
At the current rate of deforestation, around one-third of the forest in Amazonas will have been lost by 2050, releasing a colossal 3.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Novo Aripuanã is the site of a novel response to this threat: the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve, an area of 600,000 hectares (1.2m acres) bordered by two highways.
Individual parks nestle within this colossal expanse, including an old-school amusement area, a botanical garden, the 60-acre Couturie Forest, hiking trails – and golf courses, the source of ongoing controversy in the city.
The colossal amount of carbon stored in the Amazon means it could provide billions of dollars of funding for development while keeping the forest intact.
