They have got environmental approval in principle. They have not got full forest clearance.

原则上，他们已经获得了环境许可，但没有获得森林的全权许可证。

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"Had this been in place when Vedanta first applied for forest clearance for the Niyamgiri project, it would have stopped the mine in its tracks, due to local opposition, " said Jo Woodman at Survival.

如果最初韦丹塔为奈彦吉利山项目申请森林许可时候，已经有这种规定，那么由于地方上的反对，当时就能够阻止他们开采矿石。

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At the moment, standing forest is of little commercial value, and much of it continues to exist only because of laws intended to prevent total clearance of the land.

此刻，耸立着的森林只有很少的商业价值，其中的大部分能够继续存在是因为法律有意地去控制林间空地的总数。

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Today, small patches of forest clearance account for more than half the total.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

It's a bitter blow for the museum, and for the plants and animals of the Gran Chaco, which is threatened by illegal logging and forest clearance for agriculture.

BBC: Paraguayan expedition abandoned

At current rates, forest clearance is set to release more than 34 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2050 -- the equivalent of the UK's total emissions for the past 60 years.

CNN: Logging decimates African rainforest