The plan would see 400, 000 of the continent's 3.4 million hectares (8.4 million acres) razed.
"If they had to produce their own soybeans, they would need to use 28 million hectares, " says Cluff.
By protecting two million hectares of rainforest, we hope to make lasting links with forest projects in Africa.
The UN estimates Africa is losing four million hectares of forest a year - twice the global average.
Valdivieso, the U.N. spokesman in Colombia, notes that displaced residents have lost about 15 million acres (6 million hectares).
Around eight percent of the earth's forest carbon storage is trapped in the DRC's 86 million hectares of rainforest.
The team said kudzu covered about three million hectares, and was expanding its reach by about 50, 000 hectares each year.
Through its Worldwide Conservation Fund, Disney has also supported CI-led species conservation efforts affecting one million hectares in Colombia and Brazil.
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Between 2000 and 2006 Indonesia planted roughly half a million hectares of oil palm a year, mostly on recently deforested land.
There are a billion acres (400 million hectares) of farmland across Russia.
But officials say 12 million hectares (46, 300 square miles) have been set aside for native people, and another 15 million hectares for national reserves.
The United Nations estimates some 13 million hectares of forest are lost worldwide each year, equivalent to an area the size of Greece or Nicaragua.
The Blue Mountains national park is a World Heritage site and covers a million hectares, with huge cliffs, deep rainforest gulleys, sandstone canyons and waterfalls.
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His Vanco Energy, in Houston, Texas, has 11 million hectares of exploration and drilling rights in the area--more deepwater rights than Shell, ExxonMobil and BP combined.
Pan Parks is a Europe-wide non-governmental organisation that was founded in 1997 by the World Wildlife Fund with the goal to protect one million hectares by 2015.
Globally, the report says, watershed payments have rehabilitated 117 million hectares of countryside, a land area about as big as the entire country of South Africa.
Pakistan is offering half a million hectares of land and promising Gulf investors that if they sign up, it will hire a security force of 100, 000 to protect the assets.
ExxonMobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ) controls concessions covering 4.8 million hectares off the coast of Angola that hold an estimated 7.5 billion barrels of crude.
The producer of the new gum is Consorcio Chiclero, which comprises 46 cooperatives with around 2, 000 chicleros farmers, working in an area of 1.3 million hectares of rainforest, according to a statement from Chicza.
Established after the war, it runs (with perforations) all around London, to a depth of up to 50 miles, and bans almost all building on half a million hectares of land around the city.
By some estimates, it would take nearly two and a half times the 180 million hectares of current U.S. cropland to produce sufficient plant material that could be refined into enough biofuel to replace petroleum diesel altogether.
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"One example is the Forest Stewardship Council which is now a global timber certification scheme which in the last 10 years has managed to certify as well manage an area of more than 25 million hectares of forest, " he said.
In the floods that started in July in Pakistan 21 million people were impacted, over 3 million lost their homes and their entire source of livelihoods, entire roads and infrastructure plants were wiped out in certain pockets, 1.5 million hectares of standing crop were destroyed.
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Reason: commercial logging has reduced virgin forests to around 700, 000 hectares, from 3 million a decade ago.
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