In the past decade, the FAO records, around 13m hectares of the world's forests, an area the size of England, have been lost each year. Most of this was tropical forest, razed for agriculture.

据联合国粮农组织记录，过去十年里，每年消失的森林面积达一千三百万公顷，相当于整个英格兰地区，其中大部分是由于热带雨林被开垦为耕地。

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In the past decade, the FAO records, around 13m hectares of the world's forests, an area the size of England, have been lost each year.

根据联合国粮农组织，在过去的十年中，世界上每年大约有130万公顷的森林消失，其面积相当于一个英国。

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The Ayala group, for example, is still awaiting a contract for a railway connecting their property in the Makati business district to an area south where they have more than 4, 000 hectares of residential, commercial and industrial development.

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