Sentence examples for was deforested from inspiring English sources

The area was deforested 15 years ago.

Last year alone, the land that was deforested rose by 40percentt over 2001, to nearly 10,000 square miles, an area larger than New Jersey.

From August to February an average of 270 square miles was deforested a month, according to the National Institute for Space Research.

Hainault Forest, in the northeastern corner of the borough, was deforested by the mid-19th century but now has golf and sporting grounds.

At the recent peak of clearance in 2004, an area of 10,723 square miles was deforested in a year, equivalent to the size of Albania, Haiti or Belgium.

By Jon Lee Anderson January 13 , 2010Since the earthquake on Tuesday, I've found myself thinking about Haiti in the nineteen-fifties, before it was deforested for charcoal for poor people's firewood and turned into a great human slum, governed by a succession (mostly) of thieves and despots.

In 1992 Mr Gore asserted that 20% of the Amazon had been deforested and that deforestation continued at the rate of 80m hectares a year.

As precise information of forests about to be deforested is absent, incentive payment schemes would have to focus on regions under deforestation pressure.

Much of the interior has been deforested.

About one third of the state has already been deforested.

The data showed to that about 710 square miles had been deforested in that time.