The oil money is going to come in handy in the Conservancy's efforts to protect land from clear-cutting, strip malls and other heavy development.

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Luxury high-rise condo towers that were constructed on or around the Las Vegas Strip at the height of the development frenzy were particularly affected.

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In fact, Macau draws so many punters that casinos are literally rising from the sea: the Venetian and the Plaza anchor a development known as the Cotai Strip, built on a five-kilometre piece of reclaimed land that links the two Macanese islands of Coloane and Taipa.

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The Tropicana sits on 34 acres in the heart of the Vegas Strip, the best-situated piece of land available for development.

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Phillip Ruffin, the owner of the New Frontier casino at the north end of the Strip, recently tried to buy three acres of land that MGM owns behind his casino for a development he is working on with Donald Trump.

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