Deforestation has been particularly severe in Lebanon and on Cyprus ; on Cyprus, only small trees up to tall survive, though Pliny the Elder recorded cedars tall there.

Deforestation is a devastating process, with more than 8, 100 ha of forest being lost annually.

Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use.

The last batch of sawnwood from the Peat swamp forest | peat forest in Indragiri Hulu, Sumatra, Deforestation in Indonesia | Indonesia.

But recent calculations suggest that carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation ( excluding peatland emissions ) contribute about 12 % of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with a range from 6 to 17 %.< ref > Deforestation causes carbon dioxide to linger in the atmosphere.

Deforestation in the vicinity of the lake has had many negative impacts, including loss of forest birds, extinction of native salmon, and increased amounts of sediment flowing into the lake.

Image: Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil-September 30, 2007. jpg | One consequence of forest clearing in the Amazon: thick smoke that hangs over the forest.

Organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank have started to create programs like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ( REDD ) that works especially with developing countries to use subsidies or other incentives to encourage citizens to use the forest in a more sustainable way.

Image: Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil-September 30, 2007. jpg | One consequence of forest clearing in the Amazon: thick smoke that hangs over the forest.

Over four years, CIFOR and its partner organisations are undertaking a major global comparative study on the implementation of pilot REDD + ( Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation ) projects around the world.

Deforestation of the island began during this period and continued until, by the early 20th century, very little natural forest remained.

Deforestation can be avoided either by paying directly for forest preservation, or by using offset funds to provide substitutes for forest-based products.

* Deforestation, the deliberate clearance of woodland or forest for human development

# Ensure Environmental Sustainability: Deforestation remains a critical problem, particularly in regions of biological diversity, which continues to decline.

deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest | Deforestation and increased road-building in the Amazon Rainforest are a significant concern because of increased human encroachment upon wild areas, increased resource extraction and further threats to biodiversity.

Deforestation is the clearing of natural forests by logging or burning of trees and plants in a forested area.

: Deforestation, largely a result of the clearing of land for cattle ranching ; soil erosion ; coastal marine pollution ; fisheries protection ; solid waste management ; air pollution

* Deforestation, the clearing away of trees to make farmland

Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel ( sometimes in the form of charcoal ) or timber, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities, and settlements.

Deforestation has also been used in war to deprive an enemy of cover for its forces and also vital resources.

Deforestation for oil palm plantation.

Deforestation for the use of clay in the Deforestation in Brazil | Brazil ian city of Rio de Janeiro.

: Deforestation ( overuse of wood for fuel and lack of alternatives ); contaminated water ( with human and animal wastes, agricultural runoff, and industrial effluents ); wildlife conservation ; vehicular emissions ; High arsenic and microbiological levels in groundwater

Deforestation is a real problem as timber is cut for export.

Deforestation for clay extraction in Rio de Janeiro city-Brazil.

Deforestation has occurred for two reasons: ( a ) the storms, which have uprooted whole forests ; and, ( b ) the timber industry's limitless destruction of primeval forests all over the world, including the tropical rainforest.

Deforestation is the foremost threat for both Neofelis species.

Deforestation and the habitat destruction of deep-sea coral reef are two issues that prompt deep investigation of what makes for ecological health, and fuels a great many debates.

Deforestation and subsequent erosion, and overgrazing by sheep and goats, for whose benefit the scrub was periodically burnt over, impoverished the fauna and depopulated the islands, which were purchased by citizens of Murter during the late 19th century.

Deforestation of the spit due to overgrazing, timber harvesting, and building of boats for the siege of Königsberg in 1757 led to the dunes taking over the spit and burying entire villages.

Deforestation and associated erosion in the early 20th century resulted in a degraded habitat for wildlife.

Deforestation is reducing the number of these parrots in the wild together with illegal removal of young for the pet trade.

International policy has also introduced a market incentive program called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ( REDD ) for companies and governments to outset their carbon emissions through financial investments into rainforest conservation.

To ensure that forests are high on the national political agenda and become an integral part in national development plans, CIFOR has also actively engaged in consultations with other ministries such as the Ministry of Finance, the National Development Planning Agency ( Bappenas ), the Coordinating Ministry of Economy, and the Ministry of Research and Technology, as well as providing major references for the President office ’ s climate change unit in developing policy related to forests, climate change, and REDD ( Reducing Emissions from ( avoided ) Deforestation and Forest Degradation ).

Deforestation is another concern for critics of the term eco-imperialism.

Deforestation, particularly in Brazil, Indonesia and parts of Africa, account for about 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

Deforestation due to European settlement may have expanded the range and density of milkweed.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

`` Man engages only a small part of himself in an action '' says old Alvear the art-historian ; ;

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If you wish to budget closely on transportation, saving your extra dollars to indulge in luxuries, one agency lists the small Fiat 500 at only $1.26 a day plus $.03 a kilometer and the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon, seating six, at just $1.10 a day and $.105 a kilometer.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.

The possibilities in the consonantal system are very numerous, and only a small portion of them are actually used.

As a restatement it makes only a small contribution to knowledge of Igbo.

There remained only the delicate task of maneuvering the laws through the labyrinth of Palace politics and making a small number of policy decisions.

Eric Hoffer, for example, once said that America was a paradise -- the only one in the history of the world -- for workingmen and small children.

Nickel-iron meteorites with sufficient kinetic energy to produce large terrestrial explosion craters may nevertheless melt only small quantities of material.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

Under the circumstances, the only protection for the relatively small manufacturers is to engage in exactly the kind of conspiracy with the giants for which the latter were convicted.

A small, rock-carved angel watched her from a nearby tomb, the only angel in the cemetery.

She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.