Not included in the 38m is the 1.5m acre coastal plain area of ANWR.

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Established in 1997 to promote peace and conserve the DMZ's biodiversity, last year it embarked on a project to encourage North Korean farmers of the Anbyon plain to preserve the area so red-crowned cranes can return.

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The lawsuit refers to the so-called 100-year flood plain, which maps the area that could be affected by the type of flooding that statistically can be expected to happen once in a century.

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Most of Nepal's national parks and protected areas are either in the Himalayan region or in the Tarai area, the southern plain land that border India.

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But one thing is plain: there is a big growth area for security firms in the justice system: moving prisoners, electronic tagging and actually running prisons, like Securicor's one at Bridgend, in Wales, or the three, plus three centres holding would-be immigrants, that Group 4 runs in England.

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There are limited human activities in the buffer zone, and the transition area, which includes forests, plain areas, wetlands and many rivers, is where most economic activities take place.

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Ayman Mehanna says he was a bystander in an area where a demonstration was taking place when he was arrested by plain-clothed policemen.

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In 2007 the area was severely affected when 40 properties flooded despite the nearby River Severn being low and the flood plain dry.

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The area is at the western edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, which abruptly descend to a coastal agricultural plain.

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