There would be little incentive for fishermen to overexploit the resources in their "plot" if they didn't have a competitor waiting to pounce on whatever is left uncaught. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The fishing villages have grown so large they threaten the integrity of the Park and overexploit the fishery. ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, to support the construction industry, the elite overexploit the soil along the coasts, contributing to coastal erosion and damaging coastal ecosystems. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Land tenure practices and policies that encourage land users to overexploit land resources can be important contributors to desertification. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The elite, tempted by the high demand for forest products in the global market, act as resource extractors, and overexploit the forest resources. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Economic and social problems have forced villagers to overexploit animal species through over hunting and collection for the wildlife trade including several mammals, marine species and reptiles such as turtles and iguanas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Instead, the predatory species must repeatedly raid colonies to replenish its work force; indeed, voracious colonies can overexploit their captives and engender their own demise when there is no one left to do the work. ❋ Delagar (2006)
But while its numbers are so high it will probably overexploit its own resources and eventually decline again as a consequence of famine. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
Like some of the prophets and kings of Israel, he recognized that it was possible to abuse and overexploit natural resources. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
These methods can rapidly overexploit Arctic char populations and reduce them to a small fraction of their prior abundance. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)
Our two local asteroid belts supply ample resources, and we are careful not to overexploit those that are not renewable. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
Whether in North America or in developing countries, markets encourage humans to overexploit natural resources, often to exhaustion. ❋ Western, David (1999)
We would all be better off if we agreed not to overexploit our environment. ❋ Sulloway, Frank J. (1998)
