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UK
/ɐfˌɒɹɪstˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)
How To Use afforestation In A Sentence
- Some of the changes are the result of afforestation and reservoir construction so that not every change is attributable to agricultural development.
- No distinction is made between losses due to agriculture and afforestation.
- The fund is to be used as loans and grants to community-based organisations for reafforestation and other environmentally friendly undertakings.
- Of the reafforestation which was supposed to follow logging there was no sign.
- When the disafforestation took place, the local people lost any rights they had in the Forest, even the right to walk.
- The settlement locations were disforested, but agricultural holdings were established with minimal disafforestation.
- Most have long since gone, leaving behind their legacy of sunless, blanket afforestation.
- Other causes of this are discharges of inadequately treated sewage from urban centres, poorly sited or malfunctioning septic tanks and run-off of fertilisers from afforestation areas.
- Like forest manipulation, afforestation also modifies the environment and must thus be regarded as a significant agent of environmental change.
- Strategies like mixed cropping, animal raising, terracing, and afforestation are widely employed to halt degradation of soils and to restore the productive power of the land.