destroy a forest

Frequency: 7.210.1 per million words

to ruin or completely remove a forest

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Examples (10)

  • The illegal logging operation threatens to destroy a forest that shelters endangered species.
  • Decades of wildfires have gradually destroyed a once-thriving forest.
  • If we keep building this road, it will destroy a delicate forest ecosystem.
  • The dam project could destroy a forest and displace nearby communities.
  • Protesters argued that clear-cutting would destroy a sacred forest.
  • Have we really destroyed a forest just to mine a little ore?
  • New policies aim not to destroy a forest but to manage it sustainably.
  • By the time help arrived, the wildfire had nearly destroyed a remote forest.
  • Don’t destroy a forest for short-term profit; plant around it instead.
  • Will climate change destroy a coastal forest within our lifetime?