exploit
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Rather than seeking to control or overexploit the environment, they adapted to its seasonal cycles and used periodic flooding as an opportunity.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
Part of the reason it’s so easy to overexploit small fish is that they lack cultural cachet.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2024
“Some landowners protect and manage their old forests very well, but others overexploit their old trees, even in protected areas,” Dietz says.
From National Geographic • Apr. 13, 2018
Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, who along with their martyred leader, Chico Mendes, became symbols of the sustainable use of tropical forests, overexploit their ecosystem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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