| He said most of the land had been allocated to charcoal burners who had ended up deforesting the area. |
| In Latin America, by contrast, it is the growing demand for soybeans and beef that is deforesting the Amazon. |
| Desertification is the process of fertile land turning into barren desert due to climate change or human causes, like overplowing or deforesting land. |
| Population pressures, poverty, and clear-cutting are rapidly deforesting the Earth while causing much associated damage. |
