Sentence examples for forested from inspiring English sources
According to a recent report by New South Wales's Environment Protection Authority, 9% of the Australian continent was forested when the first Europeans stepped ashore in 1788; only 5% remains forested today.
The president's own task-force on climate change often fails to impose its will on ministries determined to defend their fiefs.The forestry ministry is widely seen as corrupt, even by Indonesian standards, and officials have been caught selling permits to exploit forested areas.
About 8.5% of England is covered by them, 14.2% of Wales is forested, as is 17.2% of Scotland.
Some 15-25% of the Amazon is private property, which is supposed to be kept 80% forested (though often is not).
A national inventory of trees by the Forestry Commission has revealed that 11.8% of Britain is forested.
"My wife passed out," chuckles Mr Banks, "and my brother-in-law's wife shook him till his [false] teeth rattled".Mr Banks lives in a trailer in eastern Kentucky, amid the majestically forested Appalachian mountains.
Now the firm has opened its concessions to the Forest Trust, an environmental group, to ensure that future plantation development does not take place in forests, including forested peatlands.
The world may be, too.According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), a UN body, the net change in the world's forested land (deforestation minus forest expansion) was 52,000 sq km a year in the 2000s a huge loss, but almost two-fifths below what it had been in the 1990s.
Its people are flocking to cities, notably Kinshasa, with the result that the population in more distant, forested areas is thinning out.Two of the countries that have done most to slow forest decline also have impressive agricultural records: Brazil, which became the biggest food exporter of all tropical countries over the past 20 years; and India, home of the green revolution.
Simon Lewis, a forest ecologist from Leeds University who was in Cancún as part of the delegation from Gabon, a heavily forested country keen on being paid to stay that way, is looking forward to comparing the new models with his own data as soon as they are published.
Although Greek law states that builders cannot put up homes on former forested areas, developers are practised at getting around such regulations.One reason is that Greece, unlike other European states, lacks a comprehensive register of forests and land ownership.
