Sentences with phrase «destroyed by deforestation»
Japan's historically excellent, productive and sustainable agricultural system is being destroyed by deforestation, development, pollution and pesticides.
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Yet, every day, they're being destroyed by rampant deforestation — and the wildlife who depend on them are being driven to extinction.
In the past, there have been about eight different ways by which human societies hammered environments, by destroying habitats, exterminating species, overfishing, deforestation, soil erosion, introducing exotic pest species and other ways.
For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.
This is exacerbated by widespread deforestation which destroys natural carbon sinks.
7 July 2009 If there's any place on the planet that needs to understand the relative advantages of earning money by destroying the rainforest and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), it's the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, where soybean production has turned the state's capital, Cuiaba, into a boom town — and contributed to deforestation on a grand scale.
(02/27/2008) More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years.
Yet, every day, they're being destroyed by rampant deforestation — and the wildlife who depend on them are being driven to extinction.