How to Use afforestation in a Sentence

afforestation

noun

• Merely setting up an afforestation fund that rarely gets utilised is not enough.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 20 Sep. 2019
• The afforestation project has its roots in a Tweet that a friend forwarded to Patil about the benefits of Miyawaki forests to fight climate change.
  — Sabrina Toppa, Time, 8 June 2022
• The next step beyond this is afforestation, which involves growing forests in areas where there were none before.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019
• In the same vein, afforestation efforts to stabilise shifting sand dunes were also carried out.
  — Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
• The lumber mostly comes from the shrine’s forest managed in 200 year time scales as part of a national afforestation plan dating back centuries.
  — Wired, 30 July 2019
• This means any release of greenhouse gases thereafter will be balanced by the capture of such gases already in the atmosphere by, say, extra afforestation.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• However, the same constraints that apply to afforestation also apply here.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• Getting the mix right will be key, according to experts who stress that reforestation and afforestation efforts should not supplant work to protect existing forests.
  — Isabella Kaminski, Wired, 25 Dec. 2019
• There is a distinction here between restoration, also known as reforestation, and afforestation.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 July 2019
• For example, afforestation is covered by the taxonomy and so is the renovation of existing buildings.
  — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 25 June 2019
• Another is the albedo effect of afforestation, which is little known outside of the scientific community but has huge implications for the climate.
  — Erik Millar, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• If the goal is to minimize global warming, climate scientists often stress the importance of afforestation, or planting new forests, and reforestation, or regrowing forests.
  — Jonny Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2022
• The hope is that applying a monetary value to natural resources in this way will incentivize forest restoration, afforestation, and sustainable forestry practices.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• In China, ambitious national afforestation plans have succeeded in vastly increasing the number of trees.
  — Isabella Kaminski, Wired, 25 Dec. 2019
• Since soil conservation is crucially linked to water conservation, afforestation is part of the strategy.
  — Aarefa Johari, Quartz India, 1 July 2019
• Any nonrenewable energy use will be offset with afforestation.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• Although well-intentioned in their approach, the country’s tree planting efforts seem to overlook previous afforestation issues by encouraging mass plantings to meet a national quota.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz Africa, 1 Aug. 2019
• Historical afforestation efforts have introduced damaging non-native plant species including the eucalyptus which had a destructive impact on land, caused soil acidity, and destroyed nearby plants because of their speedy growth.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz Africa, 1 Aug. 2019
• Rewilding advocates say afforestation, while offering similar carbon-sequestration capacity to reforestation, offers little benefit to wildlife and carries risks.
  — Ciara Nugent / Wallasea Island, Time, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024