Are governments selling large tracts of land to foreigners in most cases or leasing them?
The zones range from tiny stretches of coastline to large tracts of sea floor.
While much of the coast has been cleared for agriculture, at higher altitudes large tracts of virgin rainforest survive.
It argued that the threatened species within the contested area needed large tracts of unlogged, unfragmented forest in order to survive.
ECONOMIST: Wild-life conservation: Landscape or animals first? | The
India has, in fact, large tracts of open land in rural areas.
That has made Ireland, with its large tracts of sparsely populated moorland, rugged mountains and windswept valleys, a perfect setting for many of these challenging, unusual sports.
This could help to explain how the Vikings were able to navigate across large tracts of the sea - well before the invention of the magnetic compass.
They complain of a heavy-handed Egyptian state intruding on their terrain, providing large tracts of land to Cairo-based businessmen and investors, and failing to involve them in developing the region's prosperity.
Without belaboring the whole saga of how it was established, Acadia was initially formed from donations of large tracts of land by some of the wealthiest summer residents, the Rockefellers famously among them.
If this still seems like nothing more than a bodice ripper with a twist, it is balanced by Bella's near-epic moping at the vicissitudes of love, which supplants for large tracts of the movie the place of a conventional plot.
What's in question is whether Moore (1779-1863), a professor of classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and member of a prominent family that once owned large tracts of what is now Greenwich Village, is the originator of the lighthearted verse.
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