Sentences with word «deforester»

Mexico is currently somewhere around # 5 in the FAO list of deforesters (The US is # 7).

In comparison, Indonesia's relatively weak protections for indigenous forests has contributed to its rise as the globe's top deforester.

On the other hand, Indonesia — which is ranked the No. 1 deforester in the world — saw a «substantial» decline in tree cover loss in 2013, the new analysis found, although experts said it's too soon to say the nation has solved its deforestation problem.

Last year, satellite data from the University of Maryland showed that Indonesia supplanted Brazil as the world's No. 1 deforester due to widespread agricultural development and logging (ClimateWire, June 30, 2014).

We are the world's seventh leading deforester, and drive great forest destruction here and in Canada due to our consumption patterns.

Most of the slowdown is because of reduced rates of clearance in the world's biggest deforesters, Brazil and Indonesia, and to some degree this reflects their former gluttony: both have masses of cleared land to spare.

At the launch press conference, Minister Ramesh was keen to point out to the pack of reporters, mostly Indian, that India in fact is not a net deforester.

Many believe that preposed changes to Brazil's Forest Code, in addition to an alarming poor record of prosecution of deforesters, casts a long shadow on the future of the world's largest rainforest.

Though Indonesia surpassed Brazil to earn the infamous spot as the world's top deforester, the country also achieved some important capacity - building last year, creating the world's first REDD + agency and naming Heru Pratseyo as its head in January.

What the deforesters do with the felled trees — either leaving them to rot on the forest floor or burning them — creates further emissions.

Rival clubs that only recently dismissed him as more of a deforester than a designer now seek his advice.