Sentence examples for felling forests from inspiring English sources

For the past two years the government has imposed a moratorium on felling forests in an effort to halt the deforestation that has laid waste to much of the country's virgin habitat and cleared the way for plantations of palm oil and pulp, paper and timber businesses.

They are both actively sought for the pet trade and collected opportunistically when felling forests.

These women could have felled forests, collapsed mines, held back the sea just by linking arms.

Defiantly upbeat governing bodies have felled forests in producing brochures to prove their grassroots schemes are working.

We have felled forests, drained fens, dammed rivers and ploughed fields, modelling the landscape to our needs.

Dr. Giosan and his colleagues originally set out to see how changes in historic sediment movement – from glaciers, rivers, agriculture and felled forests, for example – influence the ocean.

With few inhabitants — primarily the indigenous Sami people — and a stunning landscape of fells, forests and tundras, the region is one of the planet's best places to enjoy the great outdoors.

The felling of forests causes almost a fifth of global carbon emissions.

An EU source told the Guardian that industrial-scale demand from large power plants was a key contributor to the felling of forests for bioenergy.

Its leaders deplore the ruling party's rapid felling of forests, and attack it for giving big development contracts to companies on the Malaysian peninsula, rather than local firms.

If that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apart, offering a long list of laments: from local smog to global climate change, from the felling of forests to the spread of roads and cities, from poisonous harbours to the extinction of species.