Sentence examples for complete deforestation from inspiring English sources

Researchers found that nearly half of what was intact forest 30 years ago has suffered partial to complete deforestation.

Overall, Dr Bala's model suggests that complete deforestation would cause an additional 1.3°C temperature rise compared with business as usual, because of the higher carbon-dioxide levels that would result.

This model of production growth could lead to the complete deforestation of areas outside national protected areas, and other areas which still remain inaccessible due to technological restrictions on exploitation.

The results for firewood and charcoal demand (see Figure 10) show clearly that the district resources are not sufficient for the population: depending on the scenario, if the whole demand of the district is to be satisfied by its forest land, complete deforestation will happen between 2015 and 2020.

Some species may be in risk of extinction even without complete deforestation, such as ruffed lemurs, which are very sensitive to habitat disturbance.

Many of these populations are now isolated by increasing forest fragmentation, which will lead to decreased reproduction via inbreeding depression and eventual extinction even without complete deforestation.

They are also Haiti's stigmata: the wounds of a nation caused by the near-complete deforestation of a land that was once a rich tropical habitat.

The method distinguished between emissions from deforestation -- complete clearing for uses such as cattle ranches, mining and agriculture -- versus degradation, which can be caused by selective logging or low-intensity fires.

A complete coverage map of deforestation within the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) is used as a population to evaluate precision of regional estimates obtained by augmenting a global stratified random sample.

In the extreme case of a complete stop in tropical deforestation from today, the forest carbon amount would for example increase by up to 230 GtC within 100 years.

As deforestation is complete and local populations are becoming aware of the shortage of timber for their own construction needs, a 'market call' is on the horizon in the form of a domestic/illegal market organized by the local chainsaw teams, who sometimes take over the timber business at the expense of legal companies.