Sentence examples for tract of rainforest from inspiring English sources

IT IS a thinly populated slice of Atlantic coast backed by a large tract of rainforest.

Lapa Rios, Osa Peninsula Former Peace Corps workers, John and Karen Lewis, moved from Minnesota to Costa Rica in the Nineties to develop a tract of rainforest into a conservation project and private reserve.

Mr Correa objected to this as "sickening" but the party seems set to defy him.This week the foreign minister resigned after Mr Correa badmouthed those promoting a scheme to seek foreign aid in return for not extracting oil from a tract of rainforest which the president had previously championed.

Follow one of the walking trails through this mountainous tract of rainforest, stopping for a swim at the Wheel of Fire Falls.

In February Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei pledged to protect 200,000 sq km (124,000 sq mi) of rainforest on the island of Borneo, where palm oil plantations and logging had destroyed vast tracts of rainforest.

Proponents of palm oil point out that it's cheap and efficient to grow and use, although critics point out that huge tracts of rainforest have been cleared – at a rate of around 690,000 hectares a year between 2006 and 2010 – to make way for the crop, putting engendered species such as the orangutan under severe threat.

One notable exception to the where-there's-humans-there's-invasive-species rule are remote tracts of rainforest.

Deforestation practices, notably in Indonesia, wherein vast tracts of rainforest and peat land are being cleared to support palm oil plantations have also provoked controversy [11].

The unprecedented economic growth occurring across Southeast Asia is causing large tracts of rainforest to be logged, converted to plantations or fragmented by infrastructure development.

We've converted enormous tracts of rainforest to cow pastures.

The previously unknown Nipah virus emerged in Malaysia in the late 1990s after large tracts of rainforest were cleared for commercial forestry, agricultural crops, and large-scale intensive pig farming (39).