How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

noun

• The trees and wildlife have returned, but deforestation took a toll on more than what’s seen on the surface.
  — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
• The first week of the climate summit saw new pledges to tackle deforestation and to move away from coal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• In fact, 93% of the country is rainforest, and the country has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The film captured the scale and gravity of this mass deforestation in unique ways.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• Already the country has one of the highest levels of deforestation in the world.
  — Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
• Beef and soy are the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Amazon deforestation, trending upward over the past years, reached a record high in the first half of 2022.
  — Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2022
• Food waste, deforestation, and a huge global demand for beef, to name a few.
  — NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• Guaviare faces one of the highest deforestation rates in Colombia.
  — Luis Bernardo Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
• The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has varied with the ebbs and flows of the Brazilian economy, hitting a low point about a decade ago.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• That’s helping fund deforestation and large-scale dairy farms, the critics said.
  — Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
• Indonesia had the highest deforestation rate in the world in the early 2000s.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
• One-third of the class mentioned it, with two eager to focus on deforestation (the clearing of large areas of trees).
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
• And there are signs the trajectory of global deforestation may change for the better in the near future.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• The speeches are interspersed with video clips of deforestation, garbage and the impacts of climate change such as floods.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 June 2023
• The forest has lost over 80 percent of its tree cover due to deforestation.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
• The main reason why deforestation is occurring is to make room for farms.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• What do blocks of color on canvas care about deforestation in the Amazon?
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• Others include the effects of deforestation, and even how much drought is affecting parts of the world.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 June 2022
• The Ayoreo are native to the Gran Chaco, a massive forest which also suffers from some of the fastest deforestation rates in the world.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2021
• With these advances in software and hard-tech, in 2024, the global fight against deforestation will finally start to grow new shoots.
  — Alloysius Attah, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• By the 1980s, deforestation reached Centinela, perched on an Andean ridge.
  — Amanda Schupak, CNN, 13 June 2024
• Some gains were made, at least on paper: a number of countries signed on to pledges that would halt deforestation by 2030 and cut emissions of methane.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• That, in turn, could unleash more deforestation around the world as land is cleared to backfill food production displaced in the United States, Searchinger said.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• This is a problem since cocoa is known to be a primary driver of deforestation in the region.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 May 2023
• Under Bolsonaro, rates of deforestation in the Amazon reached record highs.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
• Ecuador has struggled with deforestation but has been making progress in its efforts to protect the Amazon area.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 15 Feb. 2023
• Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape driven by sea‐level rise and extreme events.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• In its annual 2022 survey, the World Resources Institute found that Malaysia was one of the few places where deforestation did not get worse.
  — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Where cases have occurred, researchers are increasingly detecting something that may explain why the virus is emerging and spreading: deforestation.
  — Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025