Sentence examples for total deforestation from inspiring English sources

"The consequence was near total deforestation," says Fearnside.

This is equivalent to 10 40% of total deforestation in 2010, and 9 35% of total deforestation in 2030.

But, the region remains under intense pressure for the charcoal trade, which has resulted in almost total deforestation in Haiti.

For example satellite data suggests total deforestation in Cameroon has increased fourfold from 2006 to 2014, and this rate of acceleration is not unusual in sub-Saharan Africa.

This is due to an increasing population requiring more woodfuel and so contributing to a higher proportion of total deforestation.

News that total deforestation rose over the entire year came quickly after the announcement of monthly figures showing that month-on-month deforestation had in fact fallen.

If that pace continues, the yearly total for deforestation would jump; the number was approximately 6,900 square miles from August 2006 to August 2007.

In recent years, large clearings (>1000 ha) accounted for gradually smaller amounts of total annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, whereas the proportion of small clearings (<50 ha) nowadays represents more than 80% of annual deforestation.

The study's net total for deforestation (including regrowth) is 23% less than the FAO estimate for the same time period.

Although emissions from forest degradation for all countries included in this study accounted for just a quarter of the total emissions (deforestation and forest degradation combined), for 28 of the 74 countries (38%), more than half of the total emissions were derived from forest degradation.

Indeed, the total contribution from deforestation is much lower in the data above than it was in the equivalent figures from 2000, due to a change in the underlying methodology – as described in the WRI's accompanying paper (pdf).