Sentence examples for high deforestation rate from inspiring English sources

Conversely, countries with poor governance and political corruption might experience a high deforestation rate owing to poor forestry practices and illegal logging [20], [22], [23], and consequently, high species endangerment.

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.

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

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.

Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are endangered because of human occupation, conversion of lands to agriculture and high deforestation rates in these fertile soils.

High rates of afforestation were found in states that have limited oil resources and were more economically dependent on forest products, while states with high deforestation rates were found in the main oil-producing parts of the study site.

The Atlantic Forest biome is characterised by historically high deforestation rates (Dean [1997]), resulting in a highly fragmented area with numerous isolated and disperse forest fragments in a landscape dominated by agricultural production systems (Nehren et al. [2013]; Ribeiro et al. [2009]).

In return for reducing deforestation and degradation, both of which result in carbon emissions, Indonesia, with high deforestation rates, will be able to gain carbon credits to offset its carbon emissions.

This finding was confirmed by Ribeiro et al. [53] who found that deforestation in indigenous lands in Rondônia remained close to zero between 1997 and 2004, but raised concern about state sustainable use areas subject to high deforestation rates.

The adoption of a REDD regime should be most suitable for countries with high forest areas and high deforestation rates.

This area had high deforestation rates in 2004 and 2005, with a period of intense biomass burning in this region.