Sentences with phrase «hectares of»

Just last month, the Leopardoviy refuge was hit by a fire that destroyed nearly 1,500 hectares of leopard habitat.

But under the right conditions, it can assemble with billions of its comrades into apocalyptic swarms that destroy thousands of hectares of crops in Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

At September's UN Climate Summit, governments and food traders signed up to the New York Declaration on Forests, which aims to protect the world's forests, in part by rehabilitating millions of hectares of farmland degraded by salt, erosion and overgrazing.

In the last 15 years 200,000 hectares of the Mau Forest in western Kenya have been converted to agricultural land.

More than 100 million additional hectares of cropland will be needed to satisfy this need, Glover said.

The excavation of hundreds of kilometers from coast to coast, traversing Lake Nicaragua, the largest drinking - water reservoir in the region, will destroy around 400,000 hectares of rainforests and wetlands.

His early calculations indicate that 3 hectares of productive ecosystem are needed to maintain one Canadian.

With 3 million hectares of good alluvial land, half of which can be irrigated easily, Mali could become a breadbasket.

The group calculate that 4.1 to 6.9 million hectares of uncultivated land will have to be cleared to grow crops for biofuel and to feed the EU.

Less than 115 kilometers to the south is the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve, with more than 318,000 hectares of tropical dry forest.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of the forests and wetlands would be cleared for the canal, destroying the habitats and food sources of already endangered species such as the Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), the harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) and the jaguar (Panthera onca), a creature of mystical importance to Mesoamerican cultures.

Some 240 kilometers north of the most likely route of the canal lies the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve — 2 million hectares of tropical forest that is the last refuge of many disappearing species (see «Nicaragua carve - up»).

Each year Earth loses 12 million to 15 million hectares of forest, according to the World Wildlife Fund, the equivalent of 36 football fields disappearing per minute.

It shows how millions of hectares of land would have to be cleared in order to grow crops to make enough biofuels to fulfil the plan and feed Europe.

In Beltrando's experiment, the cooling effect extended over at least ten hectares of nearby vines.

Through their analyses the authors also identified 9 township hotspots of deforestation of intact forests and a large area 6.1 million hectares of intact forest in Northern Myanmar.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

They eventually purchased 13 hectares of Iowa farmland in an apparent attempt to conceal their activities.

The results could propel efforts to sow millions of hectares of marginal farmland with biofuel crops.

In an article published in the upcoming issue, researchers challenge the role that FIFA and the Brazilian government play in protecting the environment, asking both to: protect 1,000 hectares of the critically endangered Caatinga ecosystem — the natural habitat for its World Cup mascot, Fuelco — for each goal scored in the World Cup.

Though uninhabited by humans, the 3626 hectares of the South Pacific island are home to several bird species — like the Henderson petrel — that nest nowhere else.

While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5 % overall, and by 20 % for arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).

Yayasan Sabah — the Sabah Foundation, a Malaysian state - owned company — is felling 75,000 hectares of rainforest on the island of Borneo and converting it to lucrative palm oil plantation.

Your article on the study of habitat fragmentation in Borneo carried out in co-operation with loggers states that 75,000 hectares of primary forest in Sabah is being cleared to develop oil - palm plantations (22 October, p 7).

A controversial project to restore 2.5 million hectares of tropical peatland hinges on sustainable farming

Tunisia scores 65 per cent, and has lost an estimated 19 000 hectares of natural wetlands because of dam construction.

The Vavilov Institute issued a statement after today's ruling saying it would pursue a final appeal to the federal arbitration court over the 90 hectares of plots concerned, but campaigners have expressed little hope of victory.

The breakthrough could pave the way for millions of hectares of land contaminated by munitions to be cleaned up.

From there it would irrigate almost 200 000 hectares of tobacco, rice and vegetable fields in the east of mainland Greece.

The «discovery» of 27 000 hectares of native woodlands in the Highlands has increased the size of Scotland's native forests by around 35 per cent.

«A vast majority of that manure is then used as an important input for 9.2 million hectares of (U.S.) agricultural land.»

Cork is the main non-timber forest product in the Mediterranean region, and its usage is essential to preserve thousands of hectares of cork oak in southern European and Maghreb countries.

This condition, known as Pierce's disease, wiped out thousands of hectares of grapes in southern California earlier this century and prevents wine growers from moving into the southeast of the US.

It will be the first genetically engineered grain crop on the market, and could eventually be grown on the million or more hectares of maize fields infected by corn borers in the US each year.

According to the new figures, included in a draft report for the Forestry Commission, there are at least 104 876 hectares of genuinely native woodlands in the Highlands — and there could be more.

More generally, the strategy sets a number of goals: cutting overwintering bee colony losses to 15 % (from roughly 30 % in recent years) by 2025, restoring nearly 3 million hectares of land for pollinators in 5 years, and boosting monarch populations in a key wintering area in Mexico to 225 million by 2020 (roughly four times as high as now).

The hike in acidity can kill plants and wildlife: Over the last 2 decades, scientists have documented harm to thousands of lakes and rivers and millions of hectares of high - altitude forests.

Marsh Tits breed at very low densities, and on average one has to search five to seven hectares of this forest to find a single breeding cavity.

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

Following over a decade of preparation, the State of Saxony - Anhalt reactivated approximately 140 hectares of floodplain here by relocating the dike in 2006.

Over the next 600 days, thousands of bemused people from Satlykovo and 22 nearby villages were evacuated, 20,000 hectares of farmland was put out of use and a permanent exclusion zone was created.

He recalls one incident when his group spotted 11 hectares of forest loss in Peru, accompanied by extensive dredging — signs of an illegal gold mining operation.

The alga now carpets 4600 - and - counting hectares of sea floor, wiping out native grasses from Spain to Croatia.

Aquifers alone could sustain 60,000 hectares of crops, according to a 2009 report.

More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective logging a common economic activity.

For context, the activity of almost 5,000 dung beetles from 53 species was recorded within the largest logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 544,000 hectares of native forest — an area 3.5 times that of London.

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.

Dams on just two, the Flinders and Gilbert, could support 50,000 hectares of crops, according to a study by Stone in December.

Meanwhile, firms from China and India have leased hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland in Ethiopia.

Between 2004 and 2009, it leased 376,000 hectares of land in Sudan to grow wheat and rice.