How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

noun

• Much of that deforestation is thought to be linked to the flourishing drug trade.
  — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Food waste, deforestation, and a huge global demand for beef, to name a few.
  — NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• 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
• In Brazil, beef causes six times more deforestation than soya does.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• 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
• That’s helping fund deforestation and large-scale dairy farms, the critics said.
  — Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
• The first week of the climate summit saw new pledges to tackle deforestation and to move away from coal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• The film captured the scale and gravity of this mass deforestation in unique ways.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• The main reason why deforestation is occurring is to make room for farms.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• To be clear, coffee is not the leading cause of deforestation in Brazil.
  — NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
• Barreto said that even sending the Army to curb deforestation isn't enough at this point.
  — Marcia Reverdosa, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
• Clear-cutting land for farms and ranches is the main driver of deforestation.
  — Thomas Hertel, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2021
• Beef and soy are the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Already the country has one of the highest levels of deforestation in the world.
  — Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
• Guaviare faces one of the highest deforestation rates in Colombia.
  — Luis Bernardo Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
• Cargill has been criticized for its timetable on deforestation in regards to soy in Brazil.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 15 Aug. 2021
• What do blocks of color on canvas care about deforestation in the Amazon?
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• In those areas, deforestation rates are up to three times higher than in places where there is no mining, the report found.
  — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The forest has lost over 80 percent of its tree cover due to deforestation.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
• During his tenure, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has surged.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 24 June 2021
• As a result, buyers may shift to regions with lower deforestation risk.
  — Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
• Others include the effects of deforestation, and even how much drought is affecting parts of the world.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 June 2022
• Most deforestation is driven by consumer desire for beef.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Want to demonstrate the impact of deforestation?
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• To the north, the Amazon continues to shrink due to deforestation.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 2 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No wolves to inadvertently stop or slow deforestation results in, well, no more trees.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026