Agricultural footprints shrink, forests recover and birth rates decline as people get richer.
Deacon's family has run horse riding tours in the area for nearly 50 years but business has dropped by as much as 50% due to the shrinking forest.
The expansive lowlands are largely malaria-free, but as the rice paddies give way to hills and then mountains, the risk rises, and malaria holds sway in the shrinking forest fringe where the mosquito vectors thrive.
Without a proper understanding of the causes and effects of fire, it is not possible to meet the challenge of shrinking forest resources in the present and the challenge of climate change in the future.
She is keener to woo the tribal folk encroaching on the tigers' shrinking forests.
Rising temperatures, shrinking forests, disappearing species - we are destroying the planet and endangering civilisation.
MORE destructive hurricanes, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, disappearing animals: the prospective damage to Latin America and the Caribbean from climate change makes for grim reading.
With the new development came what has since become a familiar litany of complaints -- logjam traffic, environmental problems, shrinking forests and fields.
Indonesia has imposed a permanent ban on exports of logs and wood chips to protect its shrinking forests and curb illegal logging, a forestry official said.
Their 50-square-kilometer valley is a meticulously groomed jewel of green conservation, compared to the flood-beset Assam plains below or the slash-and-burn plots that neighboring tribes cultivate in the shrinking forests of the surrounding hills.
But shrinking forests and fearful humans mean that really large pythons haven't been found for a long time.
