1, Deforestation is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.

2, Unlike acid rain or deforestation, global warming has no visible manifestation .

3, Overgrazing by sheep and goats contributed to the deforestation.

4, Deforestation has been shown to cause floods and drought.

5, As the pace of deforestation picked up, the area of land covered by dense forest declined considerably.

6, Environmentalists warn that deforestation of this critical watershed area could have disastrous consequences for downstream regions.

7, But deforestation in the Himalayas has played a key part.

8, Of particular importance is the effect that deforestation has on tropical soils.

9, Last year, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon declined by almost 30 percent.

10, Widespread deforestation to make way for ski slopes has eroded topsoil, increasing the incidence of avalanches.

11, Not only is the extent of deforestation variable but the reasons why it is occurring also vary from region to region.

12, Agriculture, deforestation and the other secondary sources of greenhouse gases are critical to many.

13, Global environmental problems, such as deforestation and ozone depletion, should be tackled through inter-governmental agreements, rather than unilateral action.

14, Their data indicate that serious deforestation was occurring more than 200 years ago and was most severe between 1890 and 1930.

15, Further large-scale deforestation is occurring in response to government-sanctioned development projects,[http:///deforestation.html] many of which involve cash cropping and ranching.

16, Deforestation follows a Kuznets curve, too.

17, Brazil's deforestation rate has dropped astoundingly fast.

18, Severe deforestation has accelerated soil erosion and reduced productivity.

19, Deforestation of grazing land adds to the effect.

20, But it is not only clamour to stop deforestation.

21, Some parts of tropical America have seen over 70% deforestation.

22, The land is severely eroded as a result of widespread deforestation and intensive farming.

23, In addition high usage of wood for fuel is a major cause of deforestation accounting for 75% of 1983 energy consumption.

24, The authors also predict an increase in violent storms, fires, landslides and avalanches in the Alpine region as well as widespread deforestation.

25, Like most of the forest species, it is threatened by deforestation and hunting.

26, Some gains are clearly possible but not without high investments, accelerated deforestation, and land degradation.

27, This was causing concern over a possible acceleration in deforestation in the region as a whole.

28, It also provides for increased penalties for dumping oil at sea, and for fortnightly satellite monitoring of deforestation.

29, The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness.

30, Most of the world's oil palm is grown on giant plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia, where campaigners have documented continuing deforestation to meet growing world demand.

31, Deforestation and habitat destruction to build villages and plantations are the main culprits behind the mangabey's decline in Ghana and Ivory Coast, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

32, Mennonite and other large landowners this week defended the deforestation, arguing that it created jobs.

33, As in much of Africa, in Malawi homes an open wood fire is a common sight; yet they burn wastefully, exacerbating deforestation problems and contributing to global warming.

34, One percent of Brazil's total forest cover is being lost every year to deforestation.

35, At $ 50, there is an additional 15 per cent from avoiding deforestation.

36, Now Nicholas Pepin from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and colleagues say deforestation could be an important part of the puzzle.

37, One is logging, deforestation and general eco - degradation in that region.

38, To survive, Cordillera Azul National Park needs money, and it believes that one long-term solution will be REDD (strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation).

39, Boca do Acre, a cattle-ranching town in the deep south of Amazonas state, is one of the new frontlines of the government's war on illegal deforestation.

40, The Little Green Data Book 2007 shows that deforestation has essentially been a feature of the poorer countries.

41, Commercial felling of timber since the Gold Rush era, the red cedar is continuing deforestation, timber companies and environmentalists are among the subject of debate.

42, Haiti, Saint Lucia, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Comoros and Samoa had the highest annual rates of deforestation from 1990 to 2000, ranging from 2.1 to 5.7 percent.

43, It is widely acknowledged that extensive deforestation contributed to heavy summer flooding.

44, Distinguished by its prominent nose, the endangered proboscis monkey lives only on the island of Borneo[http://], where deforestation threatens its continued existence in the wild.

45, "Nobody understands how a carbon market of US$64 billion can be created in the developed countries but that no funds can be found to prevent the annual deforestation of 13 million hectares," he said.

46, The chief reason is rapid slash-and-burn deforestation in the Amazon Basin.

47, Economic development has spurred deforestation and pollution in surrounding provinces in central China, endangering at least 57 plant species, including the Chinese dove tree and the dawn redwood.

48, Any efforts to substantially reduce global emissions from deforestation will of course have to focus on those two countries and those four sectors as a matter of upmost priority.

49, Discuss two major reasons for this high rate of tropical deforestation.

50, Experts attributed the frequent sandstorms this winter to erosion and deforestation.

51, Take Indonesia, where 80 % of deforestation is of dubious legality.

52, Haiti is an island nation a high population a history of deforestation.

53, "The results were a surprise because we expected that fires would have decreased with the decrease of deforestation," said co-author Luiz Aragao from the University of Exeter.

54, Once in a winter the government ordered the deforestation of all trees to convert to economic maidenhair trees which they believed could make us rich.

55, Based on the long-term hydrometric records at Zipingpu hydrologic station on the upper Minjiang river, an analysis is conducted to reveal the effect of deforestation on the hydrologic regime.

56, Dr Hantanirina Rasamimanana, a researcher and teacher at Antananarivo University, said: "Deforestation is always a problem, but in these past five months bushmeat is also very dangerous.

57, There's also alarm at the rate of deforestation in Indonesia.

58, "The mudslide was caused by geology, but it was worsened by deforestation, " Dr. Qi says today.

59, The study provides a holistic iew of the deforestation issue.

60, The current growing tropical rain forest deforestation reclamation, people of all countries has caused great concern.

61, Deforestation and mineral extraction can damage entire regions used along the birds' annual migration paths.

62, However, last week satellite images showed that deforestation had increased nearly sixfold in March and April compared with the same period last year.

63, Arbor Day is one day in the year that prevents deforestation, celebrates trees and promotes planting.

64, As a result, the rise in fires could jeopardise the long-term success of schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation, they added.

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65, The rise in greenhouse gases is partially the result deforestation.

66, Madagascar Fish Eagle Madagascar is known as the hottest hotspot, both because of its rich biodiversity, and because deforestation and other threats are destroying wildlife on the island.

67, He said Africa was suffering badly from deforestation: for every ten trees cut down, only one was planted.

68, The deforestation dilemma still cries for more commitment , clarity, and vision.

69, In Brazil, for example, the government has set deforestation reduction targets.

70, But human populations around PAs may have negative impacts on biodiversity such as illegal hunting, deforestation and mineral extraction.