Sentence examples for destroying rain from inspiring English sources

A Malaysian logging company and member of the program, Ta Ann Holdings Berhad, was found to have operations destroying rain forest within the boundaries of the W.W.F.'s own "Heart of Borneo" conservation project, the report said.

But Dr. Laurance says that is a dangerous lens through which to view the modern world, where the forces that are destroying rain forest operate on a scale previously unknown.

What's more, the world is currently so overpopulated that we're driving over 50 species of plants and animals to extinction every day, destroying rain forests many times faster than they can regenerate and in some areas consuming fresh water at least 10 times faster than it is being replenished.

Environmental groups are already decrying new and expanding palm oil plantations in Borneo that they say are destroying rain forests and threatening orangutans.

With less hubris maybe we will understand that dumping 70 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year might actually have an impact; or that destroying rain forests will affect biodiversity; or that killing off coral reefs will reduce available food supplies just as a growing human population needs the nutrition most.

The protesters contend that the institutions have destroyed rain forests, left poor countries in debt, and protected Nike, Disney and Monsanto instead of workers in the third world.

Myself and a few other extremely brave employees rushed into the kennel, the roof was destroyed, rain and wind belting us and the animals around, but somehow we managed to get everyone out and no one was hurt.

This presumed invasion of the (largely destroyed) rain forest ecosystem at ground level by ACG dry forest species has been repeated by many other species of insects and plants.

Slash-and-burn rice farming was destroying the rain forest, and Dr. Uphoff sought alternatives.

In fact the case, which centred on wild allegations that the company had committed every corporate crime in the book, from underpaying staff to destroying the rain forests, ended this month after two-and-a-half years.

Sister Dorothy, 73, was shot six times outside the town of Anapu, where she worked as an advocate for landless peasants, often criticizing cattle ranchers for seizing land illegally and destroying the rain forest.