How to Use deforested in a Sentence

deforested

adjective
  • These tree-dwelling tarantulas, found in deforested regions, are rare and vulnerable to habitat loss.
    — Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • With them came sickness and death, contaminated rivers, deforested land.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
  • However, it’s increasingly made from palm oil and soybean oil produced abroad in deforested areas.
    — Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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