: the action or process of clearing of forests;
also
: the state of having been cleared of forests
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the deforestation of the island
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The region’s Amazon forest has suffered from deforestation — a trend that the Brazilian government and conservationists are trying to reverse.
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Namibia is the most sparsely populated country in the Commonwealth, with vast areas of desert that suffer greatly from drought and deforestation.
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In the past, road-building in the Amazon has been the first step to development and deforestation.
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In the late 1900's, poaching, deforestation and encroaching human development devastated the loveable beasts' populations.
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Last year the governments of Ivory Coast and other top cocoa producer Ghana, along with food giants Nestle, Mars and Hershey, pledged to work together to end deforestation in the West African nations.
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Last year the governments of Ivory Coast and other top cocoa producer Ghana, along with food giants Nestle, Mars and Hershey, pledged to work together to end deforestation in the West African nations.
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Experts at Lehigh University found that growing demand is leading to rampant deforestation in poor nations that are forced to chop down native plants to create cocoa farms.
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Episodes from Haitian history are interspersed throughout—from Columbus’s fateful landing in 1492 to the slave trade and the deforestation that has impoverished the island.
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First Known Use of deforestation
1874
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