Sentence examples for highest deforestation rate from inspiring English sources
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.
A recent analysis found that Malaysia, which is a part of the TPP, has the world's highest deforestation rate between 2000-2012.
Ecuador has had the highest deforestation rate of any Latin American country for several years [166], [167].
It is already fragmented and Riau has the highest deforestation rate in Indonesia, having lost 65% of its forest in the last 25 years [59].
At the time, that country had the highest deforestation rate in the world; now it has among the lowest, says Gretchen C. Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science at Stanford University.
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.
Over the last decades, the Paraguayan Atlantic Forest presented one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, and today, only a small share remains.
Indonesia is currently the country with the highest deforestation rates worldwide with potentially devastating effects on its diverse and highly endemic flora and fauna.
Among nations with the highest deforestation rates, significant proportions of their forest losses have been reported on the savanna woodland forests that are poorly protected (FAO 2010; Green et al. 2013).
