Sentence examples for tree destruction from inspiring English sources

For example, women in a rural area of Sri Lanka were forced to walk an average of 5.8 km to collect firewood when an irrigation project brought about widespread environmental damage and tree destruction (2).

The increase in elephant numbers has led some scientists to fear that continued growth will result in tree canopy destruction that may exacerbate reductions in species richness of birds and other taxa [3], [4].

Now the Woodland Trust is looking to change this with a campaign for a legally binding National Tree Register to protect ancient trees against destruction and development.

The letter also pointed to the risks of extensive blasting; the elimination of 5,100 trees; the destruction of wetlands, and the potential for erosion.

In eastern Transylvania I saw the heartbreaking results (below): the mass felling of trees and destruction of wildlife, not for any productive purpose, but just to meet the European rules.

Alternate-side parking rules, which have been held in abeyance by storms, floods, downed trees, general destruction and a thorough reshuffling of municipal priorities since last month, will resume in most of New York City on Wednesday, the city's Transportation Department said.

We experience ecologically damaging clearing of trees and destruction of watersheds; poisoning of the ground with chemicals, diesel, and used oil from industrial-size generators; streams drying up as water is siphoned for the marijuana crops, with significant consequences for wildlife; threats to livestock and neighbors from vicious dogs and young men wielding guns.

Trees belong to neighborhoods; they grow alongside generations of humans, for whom their familiar colors and contours, even the nuisance of leaves, become the characteristics of home, so that the death of any one tree compounds the destruction of a community's character, history, and beauty.

Support for the protests started to extend to the local community when Jean Gosling, a lollipop lady in Wanstead, upon learning of the tree's impending destruction, rallied the support of local children (and was later fired from her job for doing so while wearing her uniform), who in turn recruited their parents into the protests.

(Demonstrators tied green ribbons around trees marked for destruction.

On Rustlings Road, however, campaigners filmed two mobility scooters travelling side-by-side, safely passing along the pavement below the "discriminatory" trees earmarked for destruction.