11.   When you destroy the forests, you destroy insurance against future natural disasters, Sohmer says.

12.   Another aim is to prevent villagers living on forest edges from destroying forests for farmland.

13.   As rain and canopy forests have been destroyed, so have chimpanzees.

14.   But critics of Malaysian loggers say they have destroyed forests in their own country.

15.   Earlier this year, environmental groups had charged that Malaysian, South Korean and Indonesian logging companies were destroying the forest cover in the Pacific islands.

16.   Environmentalists say the project would destroy forests on the Tibetan border, would displace villages and disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of people.

17.   It was unknown Friday how much forest had been destroyed.

18.   Krolis and other officials say they would carefully police the contracts, to ensure that the forests were not destroyed.

19.   Krolis and other officials say they would carefully police the contracts to ensure that the forests were not destroyed.

20.   Namibian President Sam Nujoma told Hashimoto at a meeting Monday that elephants are destroying forests and threatening homes in the region, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.