Sentence examples for extensive deforestation from inspiring English sources

PNG has the world's third largest tropical forest, but demand for its logs has led to extensive deforestation.

The former, he contends, coincides with the beginning of extensive deforestation associated with the spread of agriculture into Europe and China.

The extensive deforestation in the 19th century has also resulted in soil erosion, wind damage, a drop in the water table, flooding, desertification, and loss of fauna.

Over the last five years, political instability and corruption in Madagascar, their only native country, has led to extensive deforestation and habitat destruction, even in officially protected areas.

It was found on Ilin Island, off the southern coast of Mindoro, but may already be extinct on Ilin because of extensive deforestation.

In the late 1970s the Brazilian government and private companies began extensive deforestation to develop the mineral and agricultural wealth of the surrounding forested region.

However, in other continents, particularly Europe, extensive deforestations took place already centuries ago to establish permanent grasslands.

Extensive 1970 2010 deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has generated a ~ 1.5 Mha fragmented region known as the 'arc of deforestation'.

A researcher, Barbier (2007) revealed that Thailand faced extensive mangrove deforestation.

We simulate extensive European deforestation at 1000 BC, implying that past attempts to quantify anthropogenic perturbation of the Holocene carbon cycle may have greatly underestimated early human impact on the climate system.

The player can expand extensive pasture by deforestation or intensify existing pasture.