Sentence examples for extensive clearing from inspiring English sources

Senior U.S. military officials briefing American reporters in Kabul early last month described extensive "clearing operations" planned in the outlying Kandahar districts of Zhari, Argandab and Panjwai, where the Taliban is entrenched.

These savannah-like woodlands are listed as endangered due to extensive clearing for agriculture.

These declines have been exacerbated in the Western Australian wheatbelt by the extensive clearing of native vegetation for agricultural development.

Extensive clearing of land and forests in Kenya, Tanzania, and Madagascar has led to excessive sediment runoff, which has damaged many reefs.

When Henry Thoreau made the first of his famous journeys into the Maine woods in 1846, extensive clearing had been under way for 200 years.

Most of Sri Lanka's climax vegetation cover has been heavily depleted by extensive clearing of forests for settlements, extraction of timber, and agriculture.

The Australians relied on well-established and linked defensive positions, featuring extensive, cleared free-fire zones.

High mechanization in combination with extensive clear-cutting has very adverse environmental consequences.

But extensive clear-cutting destroyed its habitat, and by the mid-20th-century, the red-crested bird was thought to have vanished.

This species' once wide-scale semi-arid range has been heavily disturbed by predation from feral pests (e.g. foxes and dingoes) and extensive land clearing for pasture development for livestock grazing to the point that it is threatened by extinction.

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).