| I strongly urge the federal government to work with the provincial government to establish enforced forestry practices codes that do not allow companies to deforest right down to the water's edge. |
| Dry forests in general are easier to deforest and occupy than moist forests and so are particularly targeted by human actions. |
| Since the economic incentives to deforest are a key driver of emissions in this sector, there is an argument for using economic tools to change incentives. |
| To get themselves off the hook, and cows back on it, the abattoirs vowed that in future they would deal only with ranchers who had registered their names and property details and promised not to deforest illegally. |
| But usually the soil of cleared Amazon rainforest proved unsuitable for agriculture: after a few years crops would begin to fail, forcing farmers to deforest yet more land. |
| First we had to deforest the bed of its four layers of pillows. |
