Sentences with phrase «hectares across»

In May of 2016, wildfires ravaged over 590,000 hectares across Fort McMurray, northern Alberta, and Saskatchewan causing the single most costly disaster in Canadian history.

More than 285 million acres / 115 hectares across Canada and the U.S. are certified to the independent, non-profit Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Forest Management Standard.

Forest fires engulfed more than 110,000 hectares across Russia during the summer of 2010.

Over 20 million hectares across the country have been identified, contracts signed, and on 20 May a new law was declared specifically permitting «the development of hydrocarbon exploration activities in the different zones and categories within protected areas,» and stipulating what companies should do if they make «commercially - viable discoveries» and want to exploit them.

The Xinjiang Tianshan heritage area is a vast site covering more than 606,000 hectares across in the Tianshan Mountains, which mark the border between Western China and Central Asia.

Riau Disaster Mitigation Agency head Edwar Sanger said fires had engulfed more than 1,559.9 hectares across the province between January and August.

The CBD is recommending some 21.5 million hectares across two states.

Warakirri Dairies leases land from the Warakirri Dairy Land Trust, which owns and operates about 4600 hectares across 11 dairy farms in Victoria and south - eastern South Australia.

Not exact matches

ASX - listed property group Stockland has invested $ 91 million in the purchase of more than 4,600 residential lots across three metropolitan corridors in Perth, comprising a total 385 hectares of land.

According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the total area planted to winter crops is forecast to be a record 19.2 million hectares in 2000/01, following good planting rains across most grain - growing areas in the eastern states.

In 2015, Jean - Claude Mas purchased Domaine Silène des Peyrals in Herault, which boasts 24 hectares of organically managed vineyards that will complement the existing organic projects being implemented across Domaines Paul Mas.

The Profitable Grazing Systems model and content has been extensively piloted with 130 goat, sheep and cattle producers across Australia managing over 1.5 million hectares working with 10 coaches.

The satellite - generated maps, developed by the International Rice Research Institute in collaboration with sarmap and the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), show that flooding has affected about 1,800 hectares of standing rice crop across 15 municipalities and that the typhoon badly damaged buildings where harvested rice may have been stored.

The $ 78 billion Queensland Investment Corporation is in due diligence to buy the North Australian Pastoral Company which owns and operates close to 6 million hectares of cattle stations across Queensland and the Northern Territory.

The move by the Canadian backed local cattle company, which now manages 85,000 head of livestock across 600,000 hectares, comes at a time when major transactions have been taking place with billionaire Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Brett Blundy all having bought into the rural land and cattle markets.

Last week The Australian Financial Review reported that Hassad's property company which has purchased, 300,000 hectares of rural properties across Australia since 2010, had never made a profit.

The Philippines, a rice - eating country, has mostly small rice farms, averaging 1.7 hectares, and rice is grown across different kinds of environments.

This means small growers with 500 broiler chickens spread across 20 hectares will be treated the same as farms with 500,000 birds in sheds.

Queensland businesses rotationally grazed around 1.7 million cattle or 26 % of the national total, across 10.8 million hectares, or 45 % of Australia's grazing area where rotation practices were conducted.

Approximately 6.5 million cattle were rotationally grazed across an estimated 504,000 paddocks, covering an area of 24.4 million hectares.

In response to a consultation on forestry land bylaws, BASC says participants in a recreational stalking scheme in Northern Ireland would provide valuable assistance and expertise to the Forest Service's three wildlife rangers, who manage deer populations across 61,000 hectares of Forest Service woodland.

In many parts of the world GM crops are common place and according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri - biotech Applications (ISAAA), in 2012, 17.3 million farmers in 28 countries across 170 million hectares were growing GM crops.

In 2017, hundreds of hectares of cocoa plantations were destroyed by the activities of miners across the country, with cocoa farms in the Eastern, Western and Ashanti regions being the worst affected.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

The researchers worked across an area of the North West Amazon over three million hectares in size.

This leaves only 400 million hectares of additional land to be brought into production, a major challenge for humanity given population growth and increases in wealth and consumption across the planet.

The necropolis of Sedeinga stretches across more than twenty - five hectares and is home to the vestiges of at least eighty brick pyramids and over a hundred tombs, dating from the kingdoms of Napata and Meroe (seventh century BCE - fourth century CE).

If all of the dike relocation projects currently under discussion along the German Elbe were to be carried out, the flood waters would have over 23,000 hectares, or in other words one third more, of additional space to spread across.

The researchers focused on 79 permanent TmFO sample plots representing 376 hectares of forested area at 10 sites across the Amazon Basin.

Researchers from China Agricultural University analyzed data from across the country and found the amount of nitrogen expelled into its surroundings every year rose by 8 kilograms per hectare every year between 1980 and 2010.

Crews across the scorched state were battling more than 20 fires yesterday amid record high temperatures, and a fire more than 2000 hectares in size has caused the evacuation of 32,000 homes in Colorado Springs.

Past conventional geophysics methods, such as fieldwalking, enabled archaeologists to obtain field data across one hectare of a site per day.

Across the estuary sits Old Hall, a 400 - hectare wetland nature reserve stuck out on a promontory behind 9 kilometres of deteriorating wall.

A new analysis of tree growth and death in 79 plots across tropical Africa finds that every hectare is soaking up an average 0.6 tonnes of carbon from the air per year.

It points to GM crops in 2011 «of maize, soya, potato, sugar beet, canola, cotton and alfalfa and grown across the globe covering 160 million hectares,» noting: «We believe the performance of GM crops released through oversight by regulators has been very positive.»

In 1991, after coming across a key eyewitness account, they were able to track down Fournier's grave to within 1 - hectare.

Since the 1970s, the number of large - scale wildfires in the US, which spread across 10,000 acres (~ 4000 + hectares) or more, has increased fivefold.

The technology was adopted on approximately 1 million hectares of rice farms in 10 provinces across China.

The need for such a research facility was due to the instability of deepwater rice yields that are then sprawled across 9 million hectares of land.

Extraordinary living spaces and five superb king bedroom suites — spread across about a hectare of lush estate — provide an enchanting setting for families, groups of friends, and destination wedding guests to relish this gem of Indonesia.

Set across more than half a hectare of prime real estate in central Phnom Penh, The Plantation hides behind a white wall on Street 184, spitting distance to the Royal Palace, National Musuem and cafe chic Street 240.

The 26 hectares contain a wetland, lagoon, gorgeous dune forest in which you can catch a glimpse of the sea hibiscus (the flower that is yellow in the morning, and then turns peach before falling on the same evening), and a sandy path across the lagoon to the dunes of the beach, where you can picnic.

Located approximately 5 km outside the village of Derrygonnelly, this is a spectacular forest extending across 2,600 hectares of bog, heath, open water, native woodland and coniferous forest.

The resort sprawls across 11 hectares of land, making it the largest in Mactan — but still you feel like your» e staying at a comfortable small village.

Set in a hillside garden of 10 hectares and stretching across a gravity - defying peninsula set high above 2 river valleys, the Maya Ubud Resort and Spa in Ubud, Indonesia, features a lovely location and is within walking distance of Ubud and 1.1 miles (1.8 kilometers) from the Ubud Royal Palace.

Kapama Private Game Reserve is an African Eden, sweeping across 13 000 hectares of savannah and riverine forest, with the mighty Drakensberg mountains in the distance and iconic Kruger National Park to the east.

Fires spread across 64 hectares of forest and peatland have been reported in five districts in West...

Relax in a traditional Balinese style cottage across 5 hectares of lush tropical gardened Resort.

Around 540 hectares of land had burned.Earlier this year, the Riau Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) detected 59 hotspots spread out across the province's 12 cities and regencies.

Throughout your 10 week ski instructor training season you'll enjoy the 65 trails across 1050 hectares of ski fields that the Whakapapa Ski Area has to offer.