Fires set to clear land for plantations spread into forests.

用来烧荒开辟农场的大火，蔓延入森林。

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Around the world, trees are often cut down to clear land for bigger farms or more homes for growing populations.

在世界各地，树木经常被砍伐，为更多农田或为日益增长的人口建造房屋提供土地。

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Others are started by farmers trying to clear land, or by part-time forestry workers creating employment for themselves.

一些是放火狂所为，一些是尝试清理耕地的农民引起的，或者是一些兼职的林业工人为给自己创造就业机会。

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They would not be willing to take the risk without clear title to the land.

他们在明确土地所有权之前,是不愿意冒险的

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It points to an exilic date for the work's final composition: that is to say when it was finally redacted, the redactors were in exile, writing for a people living in exile. And the Deuteronomist wants to make it clear that it is fidelity to the Torah, rather than residence in the land that is critically important.

它提出了最终成书是在流放时期：,就是说，当他最后被编辑完成，编辑是被流放的，是为流放中的人而著的书，《申命记》想要,表明它对经书的忠诚，而不是土地上的居所，这点非常重要。

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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.

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