The new law still treats long-cultivated and recently cleared land in the same way.
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He began to resettle thousands of families along the Sutherland coast to make way for sheep on the newly-cleared land.
Thousands of these workers burrowed through the mountains with hand tools and explosives, cleared land and laid tracks, often working in appalling conditions.
Between 1990 and 2005 Indonesia planted over 3m hectares with oil palms, over half of it on freshly cleared land.
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In contrast, when the palm is grown on previously cleared land, its emissions are around one fifth that for conventional petroleum-derived diesel.
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He cleared land, built dams, planted out new strains of coffee bush and laid pipelines to drip feed the plants with water and fertiliser.
Lawmakers are still sharply divided, with the rural lobby in Congress demanding more protection for farmers who have cleared land and environmentalists accusing the government of repealing landmark laws.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
One is surrounded by an expanse of land cleared for an unknown development project.
Once all the engineering, accounting and legal obstacles are cleared away, the land is scoured for possible archaeological remains.
They cannot compete against plants with leaves, but if a piece of land is cleared by, say, a volcanic eruption, they are often the first things to set up shop there.
In some cases, entire settlements have been relocated and large plots of land have been cleared to make way for the proposed projects.
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So far, just a tiny fraction of the land that was illegally cleared has been reforested.
Kaye said the government had cleared two more WFP flights to land -- one stocked with temporary warehousing and medical kits from the World Health Organization, and the other carrying 18 tons of high-energy biscuits donated by the Italian government.
Soil on land where trees have been cut down quickly erodes away, rendering it useless, so more land soon has to be cleared.
Critics also say that in Africa, Asia and South America, people are being driven from their land and forests are being cleared to make room for the booming biofuel industry.
But the laugh on the last was left to the Molinari brothers who held their nerve to secure a half point from the jaws of defeat as Francesco cleared the water feature protecting the green to land the ball within inches of the hole.
Only a few of the worst poisoned places were cleared up, at great cost, and the rule left some urban spaces derelict, encouraging development into previously untouched land.
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