Sentence examples for deforested for from inspiring English sources

Paredes and Fisher also said that the pristine, densely-wooded site was dangerously close to land being deforested for beef farms that sell to fast-food chains.

The land had been deforested for firewood to fuel the whaling ships that anchored by the island, and then it was used as grazing land by the settlers who stayed behind.

"This is burning that area that has already been deforested for logging," said Dejan Stojanovic, a post-doctoral researcher with the Australian National University who is based in Tasmania.

By Jon Lee Anderson January 13 , 2010Since the earthquake on Tuesday, I've found myself thinking about Haiti in the nineteen-fifties, before it was deforested for charcoal for poor people's firewood and turned into a great human slum, governed by a succession (mostly) of thieves and despots.

Since the earthquake on Tuesday, I've found myself thinking about Haiti in the nineteen-fifties, before it was deforested for charcoal for poor people's firewood and turned into a great human slum, governed by a succession (mostly) of thieves and despots.

Expect China to expand forests in a land that has been deforested for millennia, and to tinker with existing forests so they more effectively capture atmospheric carbon.

The hybrids, however, are frequently observed in the intermediate environments, for example, newly deforested sites for fish ponds, suggesting higher fitness of these hybrids in this kind of habitat.

Today the once vast tropical forests of the Amazon basin are in imminent danger of being deforested primarily for farmland.

The proposed "Basel standards" endorsed by Coop, a big Swiss supermarket, would not bless soya from newly deforested areas, for instance.

Officials with the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London say that six square miles of the Mikeno section of Virunga National Park near the Ugandan and Rwandan borders was deforested this spring for agriculture as up to 6,000 people moved into the area.

Furthermore, understanding drivers of land use change can help improve the development of future land use change scenarios for the Amazon region [ Soares-Filho et al., 2006; Lapola et al., 2010; Le Page et al., 2010; Arima et al., 2011] by accounting not only for deforested areas but also for type of vegetation and land uses that replace forests.