Sentence examples for rainforest cleared from inspiring English sources

Under the moratorium, the big US-based traders, together with the Brazilian firm Gruppo Maggi, are expected to pledge not to buy soya from any areas of the rainforest cleared from now on.

Major production starts in some of the world's poorest nations, where coffee plantations are linked to rainforest clearing.

Typically, loggers first move into rainforest, clearing the vegetation along riverbanks.

For Stevens, the two most visceral and shocking experiences making the film were visiting huge deforested areas of Canada's arboreal forests and Indonesia's rainforests, cleared for tar sands and palm oil developments respectively.

The Guardian travelled across Ivory Coast and documented rainforests cleared for cocoa plantation; villages and farmers occupying supposedly protected national parks; enforcement officials taking kickbacks for turning a blind eye to infractions and trading middlemen who supply the big brands indifferent to the provenance of beans.

The dangers that nuclear power plants present (& pesticides & rainforest clear-cutting & species extinction & if you ask the tobacco companies--cigarette smoking) are largely speculative.

The dangers that nuclear power plants present (& pesticides & rainforest clear-cutting & species extinction & if you ask the tobacco companies--cigarette smoking) are largely speculative..

We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago". About three-quarters of Brazil's emissions come from rainforest clearing, as trees are burned or felled and rot, making the nation the world's sixth-biggest emitter of the carbon dioxide.

With a growing body of evidence pointing to the environmental damage inflicted by large-scale agriculture — from rainforest clearing and other forms of habitat destruction, to high carbon outputs and the ecological impacts of pesticides — exploring more eco-friendly farming systems is a high priority for environmentalists and policymakers alike.

All but 12% of the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest was cleared in the 19th century, leaving only scattered fragments.

Similarly, biodiesel made from palm oil can have a massive carbon footprint – as well as serious negative consequences for biodiversity – if virgin rainforest is cleared to make way for the palm oil plantations.