How to Use reforestation in a Sentence

reforestation

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  • Jörg Berthold, one of the volunteers, moved farther up the hill from the dozen others taking part in the day’s reforestation effort.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • For example, most trees come from farms these days, so buying natural encourages short-term reforestation.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2019
  • That will go for restoration, reforestation, fuel reduction, proscribed fire, biomass utilization, and new research.
    — David Helvarg, National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Science has a lot to earn about the way ecosystems hold and process the Earth’s carbon, and how efforts like reforestation can help improve those systems’ effect on climate change.
    — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Getting the mix right will be key, according to experts who stress that reforestation and afforestation efforts should not supplant work to protect existing forests.
    — Isabella Kaminski, Wired, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Nor should reforestation divert attention from the restoration of less glamorous habitats such as grassland, wetland, peatland, and bog, experts say.
    — Isabella Kaminski, Wired, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Successful reforestation programs take into account native plant species.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The problem, Saez Gil says, is in the certification process, which assesses how much carbon a proposed reforestation project would capture.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Or read about this reforestation project for the great green macaws.
    — CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The project is the first of a handful of reforestation work planned by the U.S. Forest Service over the next two years.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The full list of grantees are a mix of big name NGOs, labs, reforestation and climate justice groups.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Toward the end of our walk, we were given seedlings to plant as part of a reforestation project in the buffer zone.
    — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The rules show how much more complex reforestation is than many think.
    — Lydia Rivers, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2021
  • The reforestation program will take place over two years and should be fully complete by the Spring of 2022.
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • One in-depth look at reforestation projects in South and Southeast Asia details the challenge.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The hope is that bringing native trees back to parts of this landscape will inspire a much wider reforestation.
    — WIRED, 22 July 2023
  • Now that Thornhill has succeeded, the town needs a maple tree reforestation plan.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • As a botanist, she’s worked at reforestation sites making the slow uphill climb of restoring the islands’ native plant life.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • With a backlog of 1.2 million acres of land in need of reforestation, the forest service is struggling to keep up with the frequent wildfires.
    — Kayna Whitworth, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Over the past decade, interest in reforestation has soared.
    — Jesse Klein, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Trees hold a lot of power in our ability to address some of the world’s biggest problems, and reforestation is a key piece of that puzzle.
    — Dan Lambe, Treehugger, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Young men joined the CCC and achieved a great range of commendable objectives, from the rescue of the whooping crane to massive projects of reforestation and fish stocking.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
  • And the government agencies pushing reforestation are among the ones that failed to prevent the forest’s destruction in the first place.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Here, Doug learned how to propagate and grow a wide variety of trees and shrubs for reforestation efforts.
    — Doug Jimerson, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2022
  • For every pair purchased, the brand will plant a pair of trees in the Brazilian rainforest as a way to support reforestation and endangered species.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Like with all Cariuma styles, the brand will plant two trees in the Brazilian rainforest through its own on-the-ground reforestation program.
    — Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022
  • This is the inception point for the United States’ reforestation efforts.
    — Jesse Klein, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Trust for Public Land will seek reimbursement from the city’s reforestation fund for staffing and research costs.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In the wake of the Glass Fire, the property has replanted 2,300 trees and has additional reforestation efforts planned.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Still, reforestation projects have created a buzz in the northern Amazon, where companies are rushing to buy up big plots of land with restoration potential.
    — Manuela Andreoni Victor Moriyama, New York Times, 2 May 2024

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