"Widespread deforestation" refers to the widespread and extensive cutting down or removal of trees from forests or wooded areas. It means the forests are being destroyed or lost over a large area.
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«widespread»
«deforestation»
Sentences with «widespread deforestation»
- In Europe there was also the beginning of widespread deforestation as Bronze Age human communities started to use charcoal for smelting and extended agriculture to tilling and planting. (britannica.com)
- This growth rate, more than double that of the previous decade, is largely a result of China's logging ban, a policy enacted after widespread deforestation in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River valley left the countryside vulnerable to severe floods in 1998. (earth-policy.org)
- Take for example widespread deforestation which has exacerbated climate change. (news.mongabay.com)
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