Sentence examples for of primary forest from inspiring English sources

Today, only 10% of primary forest cover remains.

The undulating plateau surface is covered with grassland, patches of primary forest, and residual hills.

Currently, the PRF consists of 1240 ha of forest logged once in 1974 and 600 ha of primary forest.

Thus, to conserve jaguars in this region, large tracts of primary forest should be preserved.

However, there is some secondary vegetation corridors connected with remaining fragments of primary forest.

These patches of primary forest may have served as source areas for commercially logged sites.

Because previous estimates of forest loss have included the clearing of pulp plantations and oil palm estates the real loss of primary forest has until now been obscured.

Rampant illegal logging decimated swathes of primary forest, before Indonesia's current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, finally took steps to curb it.

But the reader must be clearly reminded that the conversion of primary forest leads to a triple nightmare — loss of biodiversity, soil degradation and irreversible carbon destorage.

Today, it's the largest contiguous piece of primary forest in northern Vietnam, covering an area nearly four times the size of Manhattan.

Vietnam, which used to be almost entirely forested until the second world war, now has only 80,000 ha of primary forest left.