1.   According to the UN Development Programme, the rate of forest destruction across the country is threatening environmental catastrophe.

2.   In their wake, the blazes have left widespread forest destruction and human misery.

3.   It can now monitor forest destruction, and has given more powers to the environmental agencies that can protect the forest.

4.   Researchers have attributed the decline to forest destruction and other disruptive forces here and in their wintering grounds.

5.   The group is also narrowing its focus, planning to concentrate more on campaigns against global warming and forest destruction and somewhat less on toxic waste and overfishing.

6.   The overall picture is among the most extreme examples of forest destruction anywhere in the world.

7.   This has included the removal of subsidies and of perverse tax incentives that encouraged otherwise uneconomic forest destruction.

8.   He said Suharto warned that expansion of the timber processing industry must not cause forest destruction.

9.   Logging companies and plantation owners must be severely punished for forest destruction.

10.   The loss equals, in some spots exceeds, forest destruction in nearby areas that are not protected parkland, Liu said.