Recent Examples on the WebThe company has consolidated the largest land package in the region, with total land holdings currently exceeding 62,000 hectares.—Miami Herald, 8 May 2024 The activists moved into the forest in February, in an attempt to physically block Tesla from clearing another 100 hectares of forest for its expansion.—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 May 2024 The Company has consolidated the largest land package in the region, with total land holdings currently exceeding 62,000 hectares.—Kansas City Star, 7 May 2024 The land area affected by small-scale mining more than doubled between 2012 and 2022 to 264,000 hectares (652,000 acres) in Brazil, overwhelmingly near Amazon rivers, surpassing industrial mining, according to MapBiomas data released this month.—Andre Cabette Fabio, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that 950 million hectares of new forests could help limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5-degrees Celsius.—TIME, 22 Apr. 2024 Thousands of hectares of its rainforests have been cleared to produce palm oil or dig for minerals.—Sui-Lee Wee Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024 Without it, about 248,000 hectares (613,000 acres) of forest would be lost every year by 2030, the bloc estimated.—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024 Without government funding, farmers covered 300 hectares (741 acres) with embankments within two years.—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
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