Sentence examples for cutting down forests from inspiring English sources

We are still cutting down forests as if they have no value beyond chopsticks and office paper, while many of the world's habitats have simply been silenced by over-hunting, indiscriminate trapping, and relentless killing.

To the Editor: James E. McWilliams suggests that moving 100 million cows off the horrifically inhumane and environmentally disastrous factory farm systems and onto small local farms would simply create a different set of environmental problems — such as cutting down forests to provide the 10 acres per cow needed for grazing.

"We are not simply cutting down forests.

As a result, Brazilian farmers are cutting down forests to grow soybean to meet the shortfall in production.

In Africa, this means cutting down forests, which would increase the amount of contact between man and chimp.

In the nineteen-seventies, Shiva joined a women's movement that was determined to prevent outside logging companies from cutting down forests in the highlands of northern India.

Mario Tapia Vargas, a researcher at Mexico's National Institute for Forestry, Farming and Fisheries Research, told the Associated Press: "Even where they [the farmers] aren't visibly cutting down forest, there are avocados growing underneath [the pine boughs], and sooner or later they'll cut down the pines completely".

The caper plant has low flammability and may play a role in cutting down forest fires.

They started cutting down forest to build pasture at an alarming rate". Panamanians were such assiduous practitioners of slash-and-burn agriculture that some here began to joke bitterly that they must be born with machetes in their hands.

But this is not a rationale for reducing reforestation, or cutting down forest.

Keeping illegal activity hidden from the eyes of tourists and the National Guard is common practice for loggers, miners, farmers, and anyone else whose land use involves cutting down forest.