The 240,000 - square -
kilometer area includes the Verde para Sempre Extractive Reserve, the Riozinho do Anfrizio Extractive Reserve, the Serra do Pardo National Park, and the Middle Lands Ecological Station.
Not exact matches
Coffee farms are often located adjacent to protected
areas; in many countries,
including El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, more than 30 % of the
area surrounding coffee regions (50 -
kilometer radius) falls within protected
areas (Jha et al. 2012).
The past five years has seen a spurt in the creation of giant marine protection
areas,
including a 320,000 square -
kilometer marine reserve announced earlier this month in Australia.
Since then, the
area has experienced a series of problems,
including dozens of landslides along one 20 - mile (32 -
kilometer) stretch of riverbank.
On 21 August, the European Union announced a series of measures to contain it,
including an export ban on ruminants — as well as their semen, ova, and embryos — in a 150 -
kilometer radius around stricken
areas.
Ten European species,
including five on Sardinia in Italy, each live in an
area smaller than 5000 square
kilometers, and a species named Calotriton arnoldi makes its home in less than 10 square
kilometers in a Spanish nature park.
And if you
include a 25 -
kilometer buffer zone on each side of the road — where Laurance says new hunting, poaching, farming, logging and mining are bound to pop up — the tally of violated protected
areas rises to more than 2,000.
Fanned by winds that shifted suddenly to the east, the fallout plume spread high levels of radioactivity over an
area that stretched for hundreds of
kilometers and
included several inhabited islands.
The most dangerous
area is within the radial of 12
kilometers from the Mount Agung peak where all activities are closed —
including Pura Besakih, Bali's biggest and holiest Hindu temple located on the slopes of Mount Agung.
Situated north of Cancun, on the northeast coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, this
area includes the
areas north of Cancun City
including Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Puerto Morelos, and Felipe Carrillo Puerto which is 40
kilometers to the south of Tulum.
The PVMBG further called on people living in the
areas surrounding the mountain and visitors to avoid any activity,
including hiking and camping, near the crater of Mt. Agung, and all
areas within a 6
kilometer radius of its peak.
Tikal --- the city has been completely mapped and covers an
area greater than 16 square
kilometers (6.2 sq miles) that
includes about
Here, you'll find find a 60
kilometer golden sand beach, jade - green waters, and a number of scenic hot spots that
include Rizhao Seaside National Forest Park, Olympic Water Sports Park, Wulian Mountain Scenic
Area, and Fulai Mountain Scenic
Area.
Including this summer's
area estimate, the 5 - year average of 19,668 square
kilometers (7,594 square miles) is far short of where water quality managers want to be by 2015.
The researchers incorporated indirect deforestation from mining,
including infrastructure built to support mineral extraction and transport, into their estimates, concluding that 11,670 square
kilometers (4,500 square miles), an
area twice the size of the state of Delaware, of forest loss was attributable to mining during that period.
The Keystone expansion
includes an approximate 3,200 -
kilometer (1,980 - mile), 36 - inch crude oil pipeline starting at Hardisty, Alberta and extending south to a delivery point near existing terminals in Port Arthur, Texas and, subject to shipper support, will
include an additional approximate 80 -
kilometer (50 - mile) pipeline lateral to the Houston, Texas
area.
Areas occupied by marine species
including fish, corals and plankton are moving by an average of 72
kilometers (45 miles) a decade, typically toward the poles, the study by researchers at 17 institutions in 8 countries said today.
The Western Forest Complex covers some 18,000 square
kilometers, an
area larger than the state of Connecticut, and
includes 17 contiguous protected
areas.