Sentence examples for over harvesting from inspiring English sources

Fourteen of Becker's neighbors and friends told him not to worry, assembled their equipment and took over harvesting his crops.

Disputes often include arguments over harvesting trees from land theoretically held in common.

"The species [has] a low capacity to recover from over harvesting due to the small estimated population size," the motion says.

In the 1960s, public indignation at the harvest of whitecoats brought strict regulations and tight governmental controls over harvesting activities, particularly with respect to humane killing and the enforcement of annual quotas.

The depleted state of many coastal ecosystems has its roots not so much in pollution or other current destructive practices but in over harvesting of marine resources dating back hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of years, a new scientific study has found.

The costs for protecting land areas were worked out by including estimates of what would be needed to protect sites from threats including deforestation, poaching and over harvesting as well as improving existing conservation zones.

The agents of destruction are, in rank order, habitat destruction, harmful alien species, pollution and over-harvesting of wild species.The moral choice aheadOf course there exists an earnest worldwide effort to map and save biodiversity.

Demand for food in these countries will also double, which, at their current low levels of agricultural productivity, will drive up demand for forest land.As in most central African countries, Congo's deforestation is currently minor, caused largely by small-scale shifting cultivation and over-harvesting of wood for fuel.

Takacs' team is worried that over-harvesting could deplete the populations of some species.

The payoff structure represents a common-pool resource situation; participants' payoffs depend on the number of trees harvested, and aggregate over-harvesting can harm future harvest.

It is widely believed that there is strong experimental evidence to support the idea that exogenously imposed regulations crowd out the intrinsic motivations of common pool resource (CPR) users to refrain from over-harvesting.