deforestation definition

deforestation means the temporary or permanent human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land;
deforestation means direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land.
deforestation means the conversion of forest to agricultural use, whether human-induced or not;

Examples of deforestation in a sentence

  • It is acknowledged that the government of Colombia, with the support of Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom signed in 2019, during the COP25 in Madrid, the Joint Declaration of Intent for the Reduction of Deforestation at a National Level that, promotes the Zero-Deforestation Agreements with production chains, as public policy milestones, since january 2017, as part of their adherence to the Tropical Forest Alliance TFA 2020.


More Definitions of deforestation

deforestation means the human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land, which can be permanent, when this change is definitive, or temporary when this change is part of a cycle that includes natural or assisted regeneration, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as referred to in paragraph 100 of Decision No 1386/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (25);
deforestation means conversion, whether human-induced or not, of forests or other wooded land to agricultural use or to plantation forest;
deforestation means direct human-induced conversion of forested lands to non- forested lands.
deforestation means the conversion of forest to agricultural use, whether human-induced or not; (1) ‘deforestation’ means the conversion of forests, including conversion of forests that were not plantation forests into plantation forests, to another land use, including agricultural use, whether human-induced or not;
deforestation means the conversion of forest to another land use, including agricultural use, whether human- induced or not; this definition also applies to the conversion of forests that are not plantation forests into plantation forests;
deforestation means the conversion of a forest into land that is not a forest;
deforestation means the direct human-induced conversion of forest to land that is not forest, where the conversion has taken place after 31 December 1989;