"cut down forests" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing the deforestation of an area or when referring to the practice of logging. For example: Logging companies have been criticized for their excessive practices of cutting down forests in the Northwest.
People also produce CO₂ when they cut down forests for farmland and pasture.
Olam does not dispute it has cut down forests, even those used by great apes.
To the extent that more people are fitting into denser neighborhoods, that reduces economic incentives to cut down forests or turn pastures into strip malls.
On the hillsides were stumps of trees that had been cut down, forests stripped by people foraging for fuel: the Africa of settlement and people, not of animals.
Mr. Oettinger also plans to clarify on Thursday that companies must not interpret existing E.U. rules to cut down forests or sow crops on partly drained peat lands for biofuels, commission officials said.
WE all know (or should know) by now that the carbon dioxide we produce when we burn fossil fuels and cut down forests is the planet's single largest contributor to global warming.
The expansion of Bolivia's agricultural frontier has brought Mennonite settlers to the refuge's fringes, where they have cut down forest to plant soybeans and sunflowers.
The company's plan is to cut down forest to make way for the coalmine, meaning local residents would lose these livelihoods, and the energy produced would be for industry; not people.
The judge, Claudia Wilken of Federal District Court in Oakland, Calif., ruled that the Forest Service had failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of changing the rule to make it easier to cut down forest habitat of species like the spotted owl and salmon on 193 million acres of national forests.
Pedro Brancalion, a restoration ecologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, says it will be important to make sure that turning pasture back to forest doesn't encourage cattle ranchers to cut down forest elsewhere.
Still, Nellemann said, "the volume of organized crime in illegal logging in the Amazon is so advanced that they are hacking government websites in order to obtain permits to cut down forest".
