Sentence examples for considerable deforestation from inspiring English sources

Shifting (slash-and-burn) cultivation is practiced otherwise, and this has resulted in considerable deforestation.

Much of this area still experiences considerable deforestation, even above regional averages.

In the year before onset, considerable deforestation had occurred near her residence to clear land for housing developments.

The transition to market-oriented socialism caused considerable deforestation during much of the 1990s, leading to major state-led reforestation campaigns, including Program 327 (1993–1998) and its successor Program 661 (the Five Million Hectare Program, 1999 2010), which aimed to replant more than 14.3 millions hectares by 2010 (McElwee 2009).

Its high place on the climate change table, however, is explained in considerable part by deforestation and expansion of agriculture.

Visual inspection revealed considerable broad scale agreement between deforestation risk and observed deforestation (Figure 3).

Visual inspection revealed considerable broad scale agreement between deforestation risk and observed deforestation.

Deforestation data showed considerable spatial and temporal variability, with Landsat-based estimates of annual deforestation differing by > 20% in most years.

But that is just what the French environment minister Ségolène Royal did with Nutella this week – claiming that the palm oil it is made from contributes to deforestation and does "considerable damage" to the environment.

Because dry tropical forests cover 40% of tropical forest area and contain considerable biomass and carbon stocks, deforestation and forest degradation of these forests have global significance.

Furthermore, fragmented control measures, changing ecology [ 10] (such as considerable water resource development and deforestation in the last 10 years) and migration may have led to marked changes in the prevalence of schistosomiasis within regions in Malawi since previous studies were done.