Sentence examples for level of deforestation from inspiring English sources

This level of deforestation on protected peatland supposedly wasn't happening anymore.

Ms. Jenson was talking about the efforts to reverse Haiti's dramatic level of deforestation, which magnifies the effects of storms, turning rainfall into destructive torrents rushing down denuded hillsides.

We hypothesise that this arises because the additional protection afforded to threatened relative to non-threatened forests is insufficient to counter the continuing higher level of deforestation pressure on threatened forests.

"Regrettably we have noticed that in states that didn't have an aggressive level of deforestation there has been a rise," Ms Teixeira said.

The highest level of deforestation occurred in 2004, with more than 10,000 square miles decimated.

"The key issues for Peru and Liberia, as we've learned in Indonesia, is government transparency and monitoring the level of deforestation," said Barclay.

During that year, a forest pathogen caused higher than normal levels of deforestation.

The environmental group first became involved in efforts to crack down on sassafras oil production in 2004 because of the alarming levels of deforestation.

One Arara community has been completely dysfunctional for the past 4 years: their land has been invaded, with increasingly high levels of deforestation and illegal logging associated with the pressure of building the mega-dam.

But in a study this year, Indonesia's largest environmental group, Walhi, found that a surge of flash floods early in the year coincided exactly with areas that have suffered the highest levels of deforestation.

The Latin American giant's supposed progress on environmental protection has unravelled in the past year as revelations of record levels of deforestation, violent land disputes and runaway forest fires have followed in quick succession.