How to Use deforested in a Sentence

deforested

adjective

• Of all the deforested land in the Amazon, more than two-thirds is pasture.
  — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• And at this moment, Lale, the forest is- around 17% of the forest, the Amazon forests, are deforested.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• In a 1939 image, a deforested field that was flat seven years before looks as hilly as the Shire.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
• At the same time, the total amount of edge around those deforested patches — the places where people are most likely to come in contact with wildlife — is at its peak.
  — Irena Hwang, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
• The heavily deforested state of Mato Grosso, now engulfed by both smoke and disease, has declared a state of emergency.
  — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
• It was based on Ibama embargoes, which, according to a 2015 study, cover less than one-fifth of deforested areas.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• In Wales, one of the most deforested countries in Europe, the government is offering incentives for tree planting.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• In heavily deforested areas, a terrible feedback loop has begun: fewer trees mean less moisture in the air, which makes the air drier and hotter—parts of the canopy have topped 50°C at points, Gatti says.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 21 July 2021
• The deforested land mainly contributes to cattle raising for slaughter and sale.
  — Liberty Vittert, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2020
• On a patrol, Mr. Ramos Guerrero looks out across an almost deforested valley in a neighboring township.
  — Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
• The leather is tanned in Brazil using a process that requires less water, and it’s sourced from cattle that are not from deforested areas or exposed to antibiotics, pesticides, GMOs or chemical fertilizers.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• Subsides or carbon taxes could also improve prospects for yeast oils, since the carbon footprint of microbial oils is likely to be lower than palm oil cultivated on deforested land.
  — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
• Using satellite data, experts have already identified two major blazes in deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon rain forest—more than two months before the start of the annual fire season.
  — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• Across Africa, French foresters diagnosed naturally treeless landscapes as severely deforested and colonial governments seized control of the land from locals in the name of restoration.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• Testing in Peruvian Amazon regions targeted by small-scale gold mining found that soil and tree leaves retained more mercury—which is deposited via rainfall—in places with full forest canopy than in deforested areas.
  — Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The fallout, according to the report, includes malnourishment because of destroyed or abandoned crops, and malaria spread by the proliferation of mosquitoes in open mining pits and deforested areas.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Panama will also use the money to restore deforested land and create green jobs in everything from eco-tourism to biodiversity protection to scientific research.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• The money often goes toward reforestation efforts, such as planting trees in Colombia or other heavily deforested areas, but experts have reservations about this method.
  — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2022
• The regulations would require companies doing business in Europe to show that their products do not contain ingredients that have been cultivated on deforested land.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2021
• Scientists warned for years that temperatures would rise, California fires would grow, hurricanes would intensify, and potential pandemics would escape deforested areas to cities.
  — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• Discoveries And Innovations More than one-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by humans, according to new research, as scientists say the region is transitioning to become deforested at a pace faster than previously estimated.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• In response, the Brazilian government aggressively sought to protect the Amazon, bolstering environmental enforcement agencies and discouraging the export of goods illegally produced from deforested land.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024