How to Use deforested in a Sentence

deforested

adjective
Definition of deforestednext
Synonyms for deforestednext
  • Of all the deforested land in the Amazon, more than two-thirds is pasture.
    — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And at this moment, Lale, the forest is- around 17% of the forest, the Amazon forests, are deforested.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In a 1939 image, a deforested field that was flat seven years before looks as hilly as the Shire.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, the total amount of edge around those deforested patches — the places where people are most likely to come in contact with wildlife — is at its peak.
    — Irena Hwang, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The heavily deforested state of Mato Grosso, now engulfed by both smoke and disease, has declared a state of emergency.
    — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
  • It was based on Ibama embargoes, which, according to a 2015 study, cover less than one-fifth of deforested areas.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In Wales, one of the most deforested countries in Europe, the government is offering incentives for tree planting.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In heavily deforested areas, a terrible feedback loop has begun: fewer trees mean less moisture in the air, which makes the air drier and hotter—parts of the canopy have topped 50°C at points, Gatti says.
    — Ciara Nugent, Time, 21 July 2021
  • The deforested land mainly contributes to cattle raising for slaughter and sale.
    — Liberty Vittert, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2020
  • On a patrol, Mr. Ramos Guerrero looks out across an almost deforested valley in a neighboring township.
    — Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The leather is tanned in Brazil using a process that requires less water, and it’s sourced from cattle that are not from deforested areas or exposed to antibiotics, pesticides, GMOs or chemical fertilizers.
    — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Subsides or carbon taxes could also improve prospects for yeast oils, since the carbon footprint of microbial oils is likely to be lower than palm oil cultivated on deforested land.
    — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Using satellite data, experts have already identified two major blazes in deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon rain forest—more than two months before the start of the annual fire season.
    — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • Across Africa, French foresters diagnosed naturally treeless landscapes as severely deforested and colonial governments seized control of the land from locals in the name of restoration.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • In the new research, 61 percent of the additional carbon storage would come from protecting existing forests and the other 39 percent from growing trees in deforested areas with low human footprints.
    — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Testing in Peruvian Amazon regions targeted by small-scale gold mining found that soil and tree leaves retained more mercury—which is deposited via rainfall—in places with full forest canopy than in deforested areas.
    — Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The fallout, according to the report, includes malnourishment because of destroyed or abandoned crops, and malaria spread by the proliferation of mosquitoes in open mining pits and deforested areas.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Panama will also use the money to restore deforested land and create green jobs in everything from eco-tourism to biodiversity protection to scientific research.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The money often goes toward reforestation efforts, such as planting trees in Colombia or other heavily deforested areas, but experts have reservations about this method.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The regulations would require companies doing business in Europe to show that their products do not contain ingredients that have been cultivated on deforested land.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Scientists warned for years that temperatures would rise, California fires would grow, hurricanes would intensify, and potential pandemics would escape deforested areas to cities.
    — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Discoveries And Innovations More than one-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by humans, according to new research, as scientists say the region is transitioning to become deforested at a pace faster than previously estimated.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • In response, the Brazilian government aggressively sought to protect the Amazon, bolstering environmental enforcement agencies and discouraging the export of goods illegally produced from deforested land.
    — Gabriela Sá Pessoa and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'deforested.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: