1.   His family had land, but as the forests were cleared, the rain ran off and no longer watered the earth.

2.   The problem arose when the government Decided to clear the forest along the Sugihan river for a colonisation scheme.

3.   There have even been proposals to clear natural forests and replace them with dense plantations of fast-growing trees to claim extra credits.

4.   Under these standards, virgin forest cannot be cleared for plantations, unproductive land must be reforested, and use of pesticides is strictly controlled.

5.   And they have had this policy of resettlement called transmigration so they were actually clearing forest after logging, and then settling.

6.   Although it was legal again to live in the region, only a few planters were attracted to clear the forests.

7.   Environmentalists hope that tourism income will dissuade villagers from clearing more forest for farmland.

8.   His camp was in the far north of Vietnam, near the border with China, where he was put to work clearing the forest for agriculture.

9.   In the Amazon, cattle farmers clear the forest for pastures while in central Africa logging companies often dominate.

10.   In the jungle west of here, fortunes are being made clearing the forest and harvesting mahogany and other tropical hardwoods, including jatoba and ipe.