Sentence examples for precious forests from inspiring English sources

Tribal communities don't want this, and don't want their precious forests replaced by these.

It is no good China planting kingdoms of eucalyptus at home while bulldozing Congo's rainforest to grow palm oil.A philosophical shift is required, to recognise how precious forests are.

Less food is available to eat in poor countries, global grain prices have skyrocketed and precious forests have been lost as farmers have created fields to join the biofuel boom, the studies said.

Although clearly Westerners have helped save the mountain gorillas, it is Africans who bear the actual costs of conserving the apes, which raid farms and monopolize precious forests in addition to generating revenues from tourism.

The illegal logging, peasant leaders say, is driven by a surging demand for wood; by the crushing poverty of the Indians who live in communal cooperatives, called "ejidos"; and by the lingering resentment over the government's decision 18 years ago to turn the precious forests into a reserve for insects that their people refer to as "worms".

And yesterday, America's favorite food company, General Mills, took the lead at the front of an increasing number of food companies who are tackling unsustainable palm oil, the controversial substance that is causing rampant deforestation in some of the world's most precious forests.

In Africa they represent a particular threat to precious forest fauna, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, by connecting forests to the fast-growing cities where bushmeat is prized.

But much of the new land is in remote parts of Brazil, Russia, Kazakhstan, the Congo and Sudan: it would require big investments in roads and other infrastructure, which could take decades—and would often lead to the clearing of precious forest.

Timber companies have played their part; a Korean one has been accused not only of cutting into precious hardwood forests around and in the Bosawas reserve on the Caribbean coast, but of opening trails into the forest for settlers like the ex-Contras.

Precious wetland forests, once they have been cut down, may never recover".

It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products, and millions of women and men.