Sentence examples for high deforestation from inspiring English sources

Brazil, which has been developing REDD for two years, with $1 billion from Norway, has a payment formula that favours Amazon states with high deforestation rates over those with low ones.

Mexico faces both high deforestation and severe water scarcity.

Our results illustrate very high deforestation rates in community/private forests as compared to state-owned forests (see Table 4).

The first approach, efficient targeting, focuses on areas with high forest carbon content, high deforestation risk and low opportunity cost.

A similar argument was suggested by Meher-Homji (1980) in India, where coastal stations did not record declining rainfall despite high deforestation in the area.

Due to high deforestation rates, these forests are found in patches, often located in valleys and small depressions which often harbor streams and other water bodies.

The higher deforestation rates were observed in Boca do Acre and Lábrea, with larger total deforested areas probably related with the access by road to the floodplain areas.

While 40% of the country's annual export earnings are gained from oil, providing a vital boost to government revenue, Ecuador has the highest deforestation rate in South America.

About three-fourths of Cambodia was forested in 1970, but by the early 21st century that portion had decreased to roughly half, with Cambodia carrying one of the highest deforestation rates in the world.

Forests underwent rapid depletion after many decades of exporting timber, exacerbated by overexploitation in the 1960s and '70s, and although reforestation was begun at numerous locations, illegal logging activity prevalent after the start of the civil war in 2002 and continuing in the following years contributed to the country's having one of the highest deforestation rates in the world.

Dry forests in this region have one of the highest deforestation rates in the world.