Deforestation in example sentence

Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million hectares (roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.

More example sentences with word deforestation

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

We see deforestation; we see the desert spreading; we see massive hunger; we see disease and we see population growth in areas where there are more people living on a certain piece of land than the land can possibly support, and they're too poor to buy food from elsewhere.

We've done this for a very difficult case, which was for deforestation in China.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

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