As a result, Indonesia's government has made it illegal to clear land in this way.
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For centuries, the forest dwellers of Sumatra and Borneo have been slashing and burning to clear land to grow crops.
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With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested.
The smog arrives around this time every year, as loggers and farmers on Indonesia's island of Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo take advantage of the dry season to clear land by burning trees and scrub.
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The council cabinet met on Thursday, the day after the deadline, and decided to take "direct action to clear the land" if the travellers did not leave voluntarily.
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As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has warned that conditions are "clearly unsuitable" for controlled burning, which is used to clear areas of land.
At that time, he was lowered by helicopter to the roof of the World Trade Center to help clear an area for helicopters to land, Andersen said.
People should have clear title to their land and houses, and they should be able to buy and sell them without encumbrance.
The oil money is going to come in handy in the Conservancy's efforts to protect land from clear-cutting, strip malls and other heavy development.
Luo Liang (played by a young man of the same name) is the driver and bagman for a big-time developer, Boss Peng (Peng Deming), who turns to strong-arm tactics when his attempts at bribery fail to clear restive peasants from their land.
So I think what's clear here, again, is that we are -- hold on, we are about to land -- what's clear here, again, is that we're focusing so much on an ad that has not run yet, that is done by an outside group.
Others have to land at Narita, clear customs and then fly to Haneda.
In early August Chesapeake unilaterally voided the Continental lease, on grounds that Continental didn't have clear rights to enough of the land.
At this time, though, and in this blighted place, Satellite is a leader of children who go out every day to clear the farmers' fields of land mines.
If we ever want to get back to being the land of opportunity again, a place to start is getting clear on the greatest boom of the 20th century and its efficient cause in the JFK tax cuts.
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"Most of these seeds are headed to the same land that I helped clear, " Sena says.
It's not clear whether Diageo wooed CIC to land this investment, but the company has gone out of its way to ramp up Chinese activities over the past few years.
The owners of Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club have not made it clear what they want to see on their land.
One clear way to start this process is through land-use policy.
We had clear title to 480 acres of good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River not far from Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas.
But now it is clear that not all polar bears return to land.
It wasn't clear how we were going to reach the Promised Land.
The business Zionism never got round to finishing was to hammer out a clear relationship between nation, state, land and religion.
That agreement, he said, makes clear the vast majority of the land was to be a campus, not a commercial development.
More than 50 people, including 20 monks, were injured when police tried to clear protesters who said local farmers had been forced off the land.
And again, to be clear, the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and over half of Americans are already living under its rules.
Basso came well off his line to deal with Danny Butterfield's hopeful ball into the box but McCombe tried to head it clear, leaving his keeper in no man's land as Watson directed a superb looping header into the unguarded net.
Some grain analysts say U.S. farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres this year to bring supplies back to more comfortable levels, but it is far from clear where so much land would come from.
Under the Kentucky system, any squatter whose claim went unchallenged for seven years, and who paid taxes on the land during that period, was eligible for a clear title to the property regardless of who had owned it previously.
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