Each hectare of rainforest, for example, stores 500 tons of CO2.

The fires in the European part of Russia have destroyed 190,000 hectares of forest.

The deforestation rate in the 1990s was estimated at 14.6 million hectares per year since 5.2 million hectares were gained through afforestation and natural expansion of forests, the rate of net deforestation was 9.4 million hectares per year (see table).3 Most of the losses occur in the tropics, while in the non tropical regions forests are expanding either naturally (for example on large areas of abandoned agricultural land) or as a result of afforestation programmes.

Forests had been planted over an area exceeding 100,000 hectares and nearly 500,000 hectares of natural forests were systematically protected.

Gross and net change in forest area, 1990 2000 (million ha year)

In 2005 alone 9,500 hectares are undergoing reafforestation, and the aim is to achieve by 2007 the reafforestation of a total of 44,100 hectares in areas without forest cover.

It is possible, however, to track the evolution of the proportion of forest cover, assuming the same rate of loss of forested areas (about 52,000 hectares a year) and a recovery rate of 10,000 hectares a year.

In 1932, five forests with the total area of 4,556 hectares were declared natural reserves.

Ten million hectares of ancient forest are being cleared or destroyed every year. Please consider the environment before printing this e mail.

The surface of the land area administered by the Herdsmen's Committee is approximately 248,000 hectares, of which some 16,100 hectares of forests (about 6 per cent of the land areas administered by the Committee) are used for the purposes of forestry on State owned lands.

At a time when carbon emissions are rapidly rising worldwide, this gigantic carbon capture machine is, like agricultural land, one of the essential elements of global climate control.

According to Brazil's environmental agency, 50 percent of the national park's 1,520 km² have burned, which represents 75,000 hectares of forest (roughly the size of New York City).

Felling seven million hectares of trees each year, South America clears more forests than any other continent.

Despite planting 10,000 hectares of managed forest a year, logging is taking place at an estimated 5 times the level it should be for sustainability.

In the department of Petén lies the Maya Biosphere Reserve of 2,112,940 ha, making it the second largest forest in Central America after Bosawas.

It is necessary to provide satellites with state of the art infrared instruments in order to detect and monitor the boundaries of forest fires with an area of more than 0.1 hectares as they start

It is approximately 12,00 hectares.

Coca cultivation in the Andean region steadily decreased, from 221,000 hectares in 2000 to 153,800 hectares in 2003.

The overall surface of agricultural land in Bosnia and Herzegovina is about 2.5 million hectares, i.e. about 50 per cent of the country's territory, or 0.7 hectares per capita.

Yields per hectare have been stagnating.

The airport will start operating in 2025.

Angola is a potentially rich agricultural country, with fertile soils, a favourable climate, and about 57.4 million ha of agricultural land, including more than 5.0 million ha of arable land.

Unfortunately, there are only 13.4 billion hectares available.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve).

The Warsaw Zoo covers an area of .

Forest conservation and protection of unique types of forests and fragile ecosystems

Meanwhile, acreage used for poppy and marijuana production has risen, according to the US government, to 6,900 and 8,900 hectares, respectively.

African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.

Even though India has more arable land than China 160.5 million hectares compared to 137.1 million hectares Tibet is the source of most major Indian rivers.

Paper, for example, typically comes from sustainable forests, not rainforests.

According to the same report, theaverage number of global hectares per person was 2.1,while current consumption levels have reached 2.7 hectaresper person.

In 1995 1996, the size of areas devoted to rapeseed growing for fuel reached 615,000 hectares, representing a large part of the 968,000 hectares devoted to non food crops.

In 2009 alone, the government eradicated more than 165,000 hectares of coca.

of land is irrigated annually, on which 129,880 quintals of vegetables are cultivated.

The total surface of land under cultivation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is 2.5 million hectares, or 50 per cent of the country's territory there is 0.7 hectares per capita.

It observes that the regeneration fellings (300 hectares) in the Angeli area constitute 0.8 per cent and the thinning logging operations (200 hectares) constitute 0.5 per cent of the forest, administered by the Muotkatunturi Herdsmen's Committee.

2003 Environmental Conservation Projects (Vietnam) maintaining, managing and expanding (from 0.5 hectares to 0.75 hectares) Permaculture farm constructing 95 composting toilets in the village of ethnic minority groups in the mountainous area.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

Out of the total area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (5,113,000 hectares), forests and forest land account for 53 per cent (2,700,770 hectares or 0.71 hectares of forest and forest land per capita).

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

welcoming FAO's work on global forest information and monitoring, assessment and reporting on forests, including through the Global Forest Resources Assessment and the State of the World's Forests,

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(10 miles) west of the center of Ankara, and covers an area of more than 5000 acres.

Productive functions of forest resources. At the global level, the capacity of forests and the amount of land suitable for forest restoration is theoretically sufficient to meet the growing demand for forest products in the near to mid term.

The European Union congratulates President Karzai and the Government of Afghanistan on the significant achievement of a 21 per cent reduction in opium poppy cultivation, from 130,000 hectares in 2003 2004 to 104,000 hectares in 2004 2005.