Sentence examples for deforestation it from inspiring English sources

Although it is affected by deforestation, it is able to adapt better than other species, due to its ability to feed on abundant leaves and its ability to live in a limited amount of space.

And because there has been some (partial) good news on the headline problem – deforestation – it has faded in our collective consciousness in the past few years.

"We could see this wasn't deforestation, it was burning of fields and old deforestation," Luis Henrique Chaves Daldegan, Mato Grosso's environment secretary, said in an interview.

Opus 2 International has invented a cloud-based technology which, it says, is simple to use, speeds up justice and answers the wasteful use of thousands of tonnes of paper and the deforestation it inevitably causes.

If the thousands who have perished since the Ormoc disaster were the victims of deforestation, it is likely that the floods and landslides that killed them were the result of damage done to hillsides and river beds years beforehand.The best solution is to plant trees on a heroic scale.

"If Lula is buckling or considering buckling from pressure from agribusiness to back off of fighting deforestation it will have a high cost for Brazil's international reputation," said Stephan Schwartzman, co-director of the international program at Environmental Defense Fund in Washington.

Brazil says it wants to curb deforestation, but it is reluctant to let outsiders' rules tie its hands on the management of its sovereign territory.The rich countries think they have already done a lot to meet the poor world halfway.

After over a century of deforestation, since it declared its independence from Spain in 1821, Costa Rica (and especially Nosara) was mainly used as a huge cattle farm.

"It resulted in large drops in deforestation and it's been around for 10 years," he says.

"We know we want to end deforestation, but it's not obvious how we're going to do it, and it's critically important to have the data community step up and say, 'Here are tools that can help you.'".

During the twentieth century, the expansion of agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as deforestation, reduced it to 7.8%% of its former size (Ferrero 2005).