"devastation of forests" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in any context where you are discussing the destruction of forests, for example: "The devastation of forests around the world is a crisis that needs to be addressed."
And we managed to reverse the devastation of forest areas.
Trees have a rival forest Blackened charred tree skeletons and calcinated ground to our right bear mute witness to the devastation of forest fires.
The White House finalized a rule making it even easier for coal mining companies to dump the remains of mountaintop removal operations into streams and valleys, paving the way for further devastation of Appalachian forests and river systems.
By the nineteenth century, this adverse influence became quite pronounced: man-made meadows appeared where the forest had been cut down, there was a recession of the forests at higher altitudes, and this devastation of the forest was coupled with widespread soil erosion (Ciurzycki 2003, 82).
I feel the foolhardiness again in Yellowstone National Park, where the bleak devastation of 1988 forest fires creates an otherworldly backdrop to blue mists rising from hot springs and geysers.
In an open letter to Tom Clausen, the bank's president, he told him to "stop financing the destruction of the tropical world, the devastation of its remaining forests, the extermination of its wildlife, and the impoverishment and starvation of its human inhabitants".
Both of these uses caused large devastation of the native forests.
If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears.
This reality is worsened, of course, with the devastation of our planet's forests, such as in the Amazon River and the Congo River basins--as I know intimately through my work with the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network.
The losses included the total devastation of several large swaths of forest and swamp in the Congo and in New Guinea.
