We should not overexploit our natural resources.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

We would all be better off if we agreed not to overexploit our environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinian Virtues] Reference

The fishing villages have grown so large they threaten the integrity of the Park and overexploit the fishery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo] Reference

Our two local asteroid belts supply ample resources, and we are careful not to overexploit those that are not renewable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

Burgeoning rural populations often have no other choice but to overexploit their natural resource base in order to survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Whether in North America or in developing countries, markets encourage humans to overexploit natural resources, often to exhaustion.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Trouble in Paradise': An Exchange] Reference

Land tenure practices and policies that encourage land users to overexploit land resources can be important contributors to desertification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment] Reference

The elite, tempted by the high demand for forest products in the global market, act as resource extractors, and overexploit the forest resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sub-regional scenarios for Africa's future~ Central Africa] Reference

As we overexploit organisms and whittle away at their habitats, we are actually widening the drain, and allowing species to go extinct more rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

However, to support the construction industry, the elite overexploit the soil along the coasts, contributing to coastal erosion and damaging coastal ecosystems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional scenarios for Africa's future~ coastal and marine environments] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Hanlon: Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review)] Reference

Indeed, it is World Wildlife Fund's experience that people lacking economic means are that much more likely to overexploit their natural resources -- they have no alternatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conserving Nature: An Act Of Faith] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves] Reference

Environment experts are sounding the alarm on groundwater sources in the Mekong Delta saying they could dry out soon or get contaminated as locals overexploit and misuse the precious resource.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the 1960s and 1970s, the surrounding countries and especially the two Koreas, Japan and Taiwan began to overexploit the LME’s fisheries.    From Wordnik.com.  [East China Sea large marine ecosystem] Reference

"Until recently it has been widely believed that prey fish are impossible to overexploit because their populations grow so quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disaffected Lib] Reference