How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

noun

• The trees and wildlife have returned, but deforestation took a toll on more than what’s seen on the surface.
  — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
• Much of that deforestation is thought to be linked to the flourishing drug trade.
  — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• The first week of the climate summit saw new pledges to tackle deforestation and to move away from coal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• In fact, 93% of the country is rainforest, and the country has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The world doesn’t agree on many things, but one of them is that global deforestation is a problem.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2021
• The film captured the scale and gravity of this mass deforestation in unique ways.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• Already the country has one of the highest levels of deforestation in the world.
  — Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
• Beef and soy are the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Amazon deforestation, trending upward over the past years, reached a record high in the first half of 2022.
  — Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2022
• To the north, the Amazon continues to shrink due to deforestation.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 2 Oct. 2020
• Barreto said that even sending the Army to curb deforestation isn't enough at this point.
  — Marcia Reverdosa, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
• Food waste, deforestation, and a huge global demand for beef, to name a few.
  — NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• Last year, deforestation rose to rates unseen in a decade.
  — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
• Guaviare faces one of the highest deforestation rates in Colombia.
  — Luis Bernardo Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
• During his tenure, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has surged.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 24 June 2021
• The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has varied with the ebbs and flows of the Brazilian economy, hitting a low point about a decade ago.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• His aim is to draw attention to the dangers of deforestation and the loss of native cultures.
  — John Schaefer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2020
• That’s helping fund deforestation and large-scale dairy farms, the critics said.
  — Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
• Indonesia had the highest deforestation rate in the world in the early 2000s.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
• One-third of the class mentioned it, with two eager to focus on deforestation (the clearing of large areas of trees).
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
• And there are signs the trajectory of global deforestation may change for the better in the near future.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• As Jill Langlois reports for Nat Geo, malaria and dengue cases are on the rise in the region as deforestation rates surged in the first half of 2020.
  — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2020
• The speeches are interspersed with video clips of deforestation, garbage and the impacts of climate change such as floods.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 June 2023
• The forest has lost over 80 percent of its tree cover due to deforestation.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
• Clear-cutting land for farms and ranches is the main driver of deforestation.
  — Thomas Hertel, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2021
• In Brazil, beef causes six times more deforestation than soya does.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The work features 49 dead cedar trees Lin planted in a rebuke of deforestation.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• The main reason why deforestation is occurring is to make room for farms.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• That degradation could come as a result of deforestation and urbanization.
  — Sarah Henry, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2025
• For both women, their efforts are a small way to combat the devastation human activity has brought to monarch butterfly populations, including climate change, deforestation and heavy pesticide use.
  — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025