Sentence examples for grassland from inspiring English sources

While no gun was found on him, a handgun in a sock was discovered on grassland about four metres (14ft) from his body.

Clean water?" At the site, an unspectacular stretch of grassland whose only current features are a black water butt and a dull rumble from the M55, Cuadrilla's head of well development, Eric Vaughan, explains the company's plans for up to four wells, each of which would see dozens of fracking blasts to release gas.

Over the past decade the government has moved more than a quarter of Xilin Gol's herders off poor-quality grassland into agricultural or urban jobs.

The biggest agricultural success story of the past two decades has been Brazil, largely because it was able to increase its usable acreage by making its vast cerrado (savannah-like grassland) bloom.

If returned to grassland (not a stupid idea, as the government now pays farmers large sums not to grow crops on quite a lot of them) the plains could support both grazers and their predators.

Since wild populations of rabbits on grassland can exceed 50 animals a hectare, the cumulative damage may be great.In this section Eco-immunity A long, hot shower Unjammed The trouble with bunnies ReprintsNot, however, as great as the damage to crops intended for human rather than animal consumption.

To Mr Vera, that offered support for his theory that pre-human Europe was not covered in forests, as has been widely assumed, but was primarily grassland.

Elephants, for instance, would help to preserve the grassland by eating shrubs that encroach on it a role previously filled by mastodons (pictured above).