Sentences with phrase «burning native vegetation»

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As people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species loss.

Illegal logging and slash - and - burn practices to clear land for farming — two major sources of income for impoverished Malagasy — have destroyed most of the country's native vegetation, including 90 % of its original forests.

Contrary to Western myths and interpretation of history, Native Americans had dramatically altered the vast American landscape through systematic vegetation and intentional burning long before the first white man set foot on the Continent.