Sentence examples for extensive afforestation from inspiring English sources

Extensive afforestation took place in Ireland during the twentieth century and the forest cover currently represents about 10% of the land area.

Lowland areas of Iceland, in particular, have undergone significant landscape changes over the last century, such as widespread drainage of wetlands and conversion to agriculture, changes in grazing pressure and recently, extensive afforestation.

This increase is mainly due to the extensive afforestations during the past decades.

The government has conducted programs to control erosion through afforestation and terracing on an extensive scale to permit better agricultural use of the land.

Afforestation has been extensively used to restore these areas.

Soil nutrient contents were higher in afforested lands and increased with afforestation age.

Extensive sampling in the Scottish Highlands found that lost streamflow reduced the number of afforestation sites found profitable, from 11 out of 41 to 5 out of 41 (with only direct cost of forgone generation) and to 3 out of 41 (including environmental damage from thermal generation).

As a response to soil and water degradation and wood and timber shortages from the extensive clearing of forests worldwide (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States FAO 2014), commercial reforestation and afforestation projects that use fast-growing timber species have been carried out extensively (Trujillo 2012).

Afforestation of unused land is not the only solution for its restoring habitats – extensive grazing and clearing of scrubland is proposed by some scientists (Lasanta et al. 2015).

In the long run, only afforestation can save the elephants.

Since 1949, massive afforestation programs have been undertaken.