The government talks of restoring protected land, but it has moved slowly.
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It is surrounded by protected land and near an old apple orchard.
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Only about 17 percent of the big cat's current range was protected land.
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Escalante's once-seamless expanse of protected land was divided into three separate monuments.
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They felt cheated, and some have responded by grabbing and burning protected land.
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The cuts would shrink protected land and make way for mining and oil drilling.
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Forty acres of the property are protected land, part of Tasmania's land conservation efforts.
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In Ivory Coast, vast reserves of protected land have been razed for cacao production.
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The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument will also lose about half of its protected land.
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Only 1.53% of protected land is free of any "measurable human pressure," the researchers found.
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They live on legally protected land, and getting into their territory requires a special permit.
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Since 2013, the team has reintroduced tortoises into protected land around two of the assurance colonies.
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All of this construction has sliced and diced a lot of protected land along the border.
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Around 40 percent of Ivory Coast's cocoa production is grown illegally on protected land, the government estimates.
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The White House said legislation to designate these areas as protected land was first introduced in 2008.
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As the article correctly noted, the mine is outside the current boundaries of protected land, not inside.
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The floors also come with more tranquil meeting spaces that overlook the protected land surrounding the Lakehouse.
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In the Ruaha basin, the government accuses farmers of illegally squatting on protected land along the river banks.
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Environmentalists say he's shilling for the fossil fuel and logging industries, which seek to exploit federally protected land.
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Environment On Thursday, Obama made three civil rights sites national monuments and expanded protected land in Oregon and California.
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Local officials encouraged illegal all-terrain-vehicle activity in the monument and ran bulldozers through its ostensibly protected land.
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Explore five acres of protected land filled with apple, ash, pine, oak, and maple trees, and loads of hiking.
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On the campaign trail, Mr. Bolsonaro promised to open up more protected land to mining, farming and other industries.
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Meanwhile the major hydropower region of Sichuan pledged to improve regulation and shut down plants that encroach on protected land.
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Conservationists, however, worry that allowing construction through protected land sets a dangerous precedent that could open other wilderness to development.
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Protected land and water could also be opened up to logging, fishing, hunting, and mining, while new monuments might be designated.
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She enraged Miami environmentalists by selling sensitive and protected land, a decision she insists was within her jurisdiction as university president.
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But Mr. Bolsonaro, as a candidate, said he would ensure that indigenous communities don't get "one more centimeter" of protected land.
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That could open up millions of acres of protected land to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities.
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Survival International is pushing the Brazilian government to enforce constitutionally protected land rights before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this summer.
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"If someone settles in an area that he clearly knows to be protected land, they will not be compensated," the minister said.
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He has pledged to open up protected land and demarcate "not one centimeter" for indigenous people or quilombolas - descendants of runaway slaves.
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Much of the countryside is either agricultural or protected land, including the 4,000-acre White Memorial Conservation Center, crisscrossed by nature trails.
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Yet much of Somers retains an unspoiled character, with rolling hills, lakes, the sprawling Amawalk Reservoir and 1,000 acres of protected land.
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In 2003, it took a survey team nearly 1,000 man-hours and 300 dog-hours to find a single tortoise on protected land.
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The council took two dubious steps without having conducted any of the technical studies that are required by law before building on protected land.
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Located in the Nā Pali Coast State Park, the beach is situated on 6,175 acres of protected land along the northwest side of Kauai.
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Disputes over land are becoming more common in India's restive northeast, as authorities introduce legislation to free up protected land held by tribal communities.
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Mr Osborne also reaffirmed the government's daft commitment to protect "green belts" of protected land surrounding cities, which constrain housebuilding and inflate property prices.
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"You don't need any one patch [of protected land] to be huge," says David Wolfe, the director of conservation strategies at Environmental Defense Fund.
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Supply is especially acute in the frothiest markets of Toronto and Vancouver, where strict greenbelt rules and limited transit beyond protected land hamper development.
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Outdoor space: The seven-acre landscaped property is next to 200 acres of protected land and has stone walls, rail fences, lawns and gardens.
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But a Sierra Club lawsuit is temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's plan to reallocate government funds to build the barrier on federal protected land.
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Bribing an official and getting immediate access to thousands of hectares of nominally protected land is easier, quicker and cheaper than negotiating with those communities.
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Around a quarter of Ivory Coast's current annual production of over 2 million tonnes comes from protected land, the Ministry of Water and Forests estimates.
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He labeled environmental fines an "industry" that must be eliminated and promised to open up large swathes of protected land to mining operations, the Times wrote.
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This massive slash to protected land is virtually unheard of at the presidential level, and marks a serious push towards land deregulation at the federal level.
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James does note that it's unknown who exactly drove into Joshua Tree, chose to deface the park and plop their tents down on long-protected land.
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Patagonia wrote in its message that this elimination of protected land is the largest amount in American history, and that they will not stand by idle.
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Designated in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson, the US National Park Service has provided 84 million acres of protected land for the free-spirited to explore.
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After the photo drew Forest Service officials' attention, Hudgens, 27, was issued a citation on a misdemeanor count of damaging a natural feature on protected land.
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Thanks to a conservation agreement signed in 2016 between First Nations and the British Columbia government, the forest's protected land has been expanded to 19 million acres.
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Mr. Bolsonaro has referred to indigenous people living in reservations as zoo animals, and promised that indigenous communities would not get "one more centimeter" of protected land.
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Six years later, Nepal created Chitwan National Park, 360 square miles of protected land for the area's one-horned rhinos, Royal Bengal tigers, and slender-snouted gharial crocodiles.
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The Department of the Interior completed a separate but similar review in August of some 27 national monuments across the country, which include vast areas of protected land.
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The winners from the decision include fishing operators, ranchers and some local Republican politicians who think the nationally protected land is too extensive and restrictive to the public.
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Authorities claim the man was stopped as officers were checking for day passes to the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area, which consists of 60,348 acres of protected land.
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They have no right to claim for themselves this land—or any other piece of federally protected land—that is a birthright of each and every American citizen.
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"Nova" explores "connectivity conservation," in which tunnels, overpasses and protected land corridors allow wildlife in parks like the Serengeti, in Tanzania, and Yellowstone to migrate around manmade obstacles.
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Public lands The Trump administration is responsible for the largest reduction in the boundaries of protected land in US history, according to a study in the journal Science.
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Under Trump, two major downsizes of protected lands have occurred -- the shrinking of protected land at the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument and Bears Ears, both in Utah.
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If you walk along the perimeter of the course now, you'll find scattered areas, not much bigger than a hundred square meters each, that claim to be protected land.
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In 2017, EFI, along with other companies, sought to shrink the size of Bears Ears National Monument, which was designated as protected land under the Obama administration in 2016.
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Rewilding Europe was able to provide protected land across the continent; in Croatia, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, and Romania, where Goderie's cross-breeds could test themselves in the wild.
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Several parcels of protected land in South Texas, including the National Butterfly Center, a state park, and other areas in the federal wildlife refuge system, are threatened by wall construction.
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When this has happened before: Congress can easily change the size of federally protected land, but Presidents have only done so on occasion, and not in the past 40 years.
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"Six million sq km (2.3 million square miles) — 32.8 percent — of protected land is under intense human pressure," from threats including more roads, cities, farms and railways, the scientists wrote.
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Deposits of sand, gravel, and stone can be found all over the United States, but many of them are untouchable, because they're covered by houses, shopping malls, or protected land.
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Deusdimar Tenharim estimates that about 60,000 hectares of the protected land where his people hunt and gather has been burned during the fires - and the blazes are not out yet.
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Deusdimar Tenharim estimates that about 60,000 hectares of the protected land where his people hunt and gather has been burned during the fires - and the blazes are not out yet.
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And it was protected land — until, ten years after a massive copper deposit was discovered beneath it, ownership was transferred to private hands intent on mining the mesa into obliteration.
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The two participated in their father's fight against the Bureau of Land Management in 2014 when the federal government tried to get Cliven Bundy to move his cattle off protected land.
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Environmentalists, however, have criticized the move and said that building a road through even a small slice of Izembek's pristine 315,000 acres would be an unprecedented legal move on protected land.
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The act offered federal protection to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, a prosperous 550-acre sequoia plot, signifying the first classification of wilderness into protected land, and open to the public.
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Trump's decision is expected to spark a protracted legal battle over the president's authority to set aside land for conservation, and the rights of states and industries to access protected land.
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The FCC only has to conduct environmental reviews under NEPA for projects that involve "high-intensity lighting," expose humans to unsafe levels of radiofrequency radiation, or involve facilities on protected land.
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They estimated that between five hundred and a thousand Mashco lived in four groups in the jungle of Peru and Brazil, around an expanse of protected land called Manú National Park.
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The challenges are many, so for now, rhino conservationists are concentrating on the more feasible challenge of finding protected land for rhinos to roam, graze, and "let natural selection work," said Knight.
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The removal of federal environmental protections for much of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments is "the largest elimination of protected land in American history" and "illegal," the site read.
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Horses still have the right of way on roadways and there are more than 1,000 acres of protected land and more than 100 miles of bridle trails that wind through the area.
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International Dark Sky Reserves, about a dozen presently, have protected land at their center, such as a national forest, and municipalities in their buffer regions that have agreed to reduce light emissions.
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Officials believe some of the protected land should be legally set aside for logging rather than monuments, Zinke said, and they're considering what to do about private land within the monument borders.
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The recommendations, which are not yet final, are likely to anger opponents of Zinke's monuments review, who argue reducing borders and changing management plans will eventually lead to development on protected land.
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Officials believe some of the protected land should be legally set aside for logging rather than monuments, Zinke said, and they're considering what to do about private land within the monument borders.
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One email details a map that would "resolve all known mineral conflicts" on protected land that Utah public schools wanted to lease out by changing the border of the Bears Ears monument.
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Something like that happens in the environmental realm, too: There is a surge in demand for protected land when migratory birds are passing through an area or a threatened species is breeding.
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has hired its first-ever female chief ranger to look after its 522,419 acres of protected land on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, CNN reports.
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" He supports Trump withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, but not his move to drastically reduce the size of protected land in Utah known as the Bears Ears monument: "That's just not necessary.
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Outdoor retailers Patagonia, REI, and North Face took a stand against Trump's elimination of protected land by sharing very direct messages of disappointment and calls to action across their websites and social media.
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With new illegal plantations coming into production every season, officials privately acknowledge that around a third of cocoa output, which reached a record 1.8 million tonnes last season, now originates from protected land.
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A good portion of the 14,086-acre Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park lies in Putnam Valley, along with about 1,3693 acres of protected land owned by the town and the Hudson Highlands Land Trust.
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Tennessee native Lisa Hendy will become the Great Smokey Mountains National Park's chief ranger in April and help look after the 522,419 acres of protected land that runs between Tennessee and North Carolina, reports CNN.
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But environmental activists are concerned about the spread of oil development at NPR-A, particularly the potential damage that could be done to such a huge area of protected land with so many unique ecosystems.
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Trump has proposed dramatically expanding offshore oil drilling, despite health and safety-related objections from coastal states, and has reduced protected land in the West, which critics argue was done to benefit mining and ranching companies.
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The land remaining in these Utah monuments will be divided into multiple smaller sections — an unpopular move that could open once-protected land to fossil fuel extraction and put sacred sites and local species at risk.
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Bristol's "green belt" of protected land is six times the size of the city, so it is tricky to build new homes: in 2004-14 Bristol's housing stock grew more slowly than that of inner London.
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SERRA DO CACHIMBO BIOLOGICAL RESERVE, Brazil — A smoky, choking haze drifted over a lush rainforest reserve in the Brazilian Amazon last month, as fires lit by cattlemen illegally ranching on protected land spread through the jungle.
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The Olympics Golf Course kerfuffle is hardly surprising given everything I learned about the course in August, and how Paes and the city orchestrated its construction on environmentally-protected land for the benefit of FIORE's billionaire owner.
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Key findings: The study, published Thursday in Science, found that about 33% — or roughly 2.3 million square miles — of protected land worldwide is under "intense human pressure" from development, such as roads, growing urban areas, and agriculture.
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This house is part of a five-home subdivision in Upper Rock adjacent to the Gibraltar Nature Reserve, roughly 672 acres of protected land, or 1603 percent of Gibraltar's total land area of about 2.6 square miles.
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Heng Kimchhay, who heads the team, says the Cambodian government has created more than 27 thousand square miles of protected areas (around 40% of Cambodia's total land mass) and assigned additional personnel to combat poaching on protected land.
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New houses also mean building new infrastructure, such as schools and parks; the "green belts" of protected land that encircle most cities make it hard to squeeze all this in, says Adam Challis of JLL, a property company.
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Delhi is one of the world's most polluted cities and a new law enacted on Wednesday in the neighboring state of Haryana allowing development activity on 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) of protected land has stoked concern among environmentalists.
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He's promised to leave the landmark Paris climate accord, relaxed restrictions on power plant emissions, weakened fuel economy standards for the auto industry, and opened large swaths of protected land up for mining and oil and gas development.
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The country's new far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in January, has pledged to open more protected land to mining, agriculture and other development, so Brazil may be poised for more forest loss in coming years.
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If courts uphold Trump's executive orders of last December, they would reduce southern Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments by 85 and 46 percent, respectively, constituting the biggest rollback of federally protected land in American history.
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To make way for the expanding border wall, contractors hired by the Trump administration are presently blasting away protected land in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument — a park established more than 80 years ago by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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He has signed decrees that would open up millions of acres of federally protected land to private development, promote oil and gas drilling, fast-track infrastructure projects, and roll back regulations designed to protect consumers against Wall Street scams.
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The municipal ownership of land, in particular, was designed to ensure government wasn't centralized and to give Nunavut communities, which are unique from the rest of Canada in that they have constitutionally protected land rights, more decision-making power.
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The study noted that in 210, the Trump administration enacted two of the largest downsizes of protected lands in US history; Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument in southern Utah lost 51% of its protected land and Bears Ears lost 85%.
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Nationwide, environmentalists fear Brazil's growing deforestation - a driver of climate change - will worsen under the right-leaning government of President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in January and has promised to open up more protected land for mining and agriculture.
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Because this is only a fraction of the areas needed to protect biodiversity, the authors of the paper in Science Advances recommend a twofold increase in the protected land area and a fourfold increase in marine reserves over the next decade.
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Germany has nearly three times as much protected land as the U.S., proportionate to the countries' sizes, a nontrivial fact that highlights the way much of the country thinks about nature and its role in the emotional health of its citizens.
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These webcams are located in the middle of Katmai National Park, which is itself a wild, protected land within the greater Bristol Bay area, a massive region in southeast Alaska and home to the richest run of sockeye salmon on the planet.
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Gandhi vowed to implement a long-delayed law on tribal rights if the party is voted into power, and accused the BJP of diluting the Forest Rights Act (2006) and an earlier law that gave indigenous communities veto power over protected land.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has asked his agriculture secretary to provide a regulations exemption in order to open millions of acres of protected land within Alaska's Tongass National Forest to "potential logging, energy and mining projects," The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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In what the outdoor clothing company slams as "the largest elimination of protected land in American history," Trump announced plans to scale back Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by some 80 percent and 45 percent, respectively — leaving the land open to drilling and hunting.
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Read more about land and ocean conservation: These married tech billionaires donated $165 million to preserve a pristine stretch of California's coastline Trump has shrunk the amount of protected land in the US more than any other president — here are the presidents who preserved the most
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Mr. Rosenthal says it was word that the Utah delegation to the House of Representatives had introduced a bill that would take control of Federal lands and turn it over to local authorities who, in turn, would drill for oil, extract minerals and commercially exploit now protected land.
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Although a temporary memorial was installed in the 22007-acre center of what became nearly 29,211 acres of protected land, visions for a permanent plan began in 2004 with a design competition ultimately won by a team led by Los Angeles architects Paul and Milena Murdoch one year later.
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Last week, he falsely accused the actor Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling fires in the Amazon, and for months he has also dismissed Indigenous people's concerns about increasing invasions of protected land by loggers and miners, even as Indigenous groups have pleaded with the government for protection from growing violence.
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It was in Whitefish and as a Boy Scout, he has recounted, that he developed his admiration for Roosevelt, who put aside 211 million acres of protected land, saving redwoods and ancient rock formations even as detractors harped that the president imperiled states' rights and hampered economic growth.
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The vote by this body — with its sweeping authority over almost every kind of development proposed for the coast — set off a torrent of criticism and raised questions not only about why Mr. Lester was fired, but also about the future of this protected land, widely regarded as a natural treasure.
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In a widely circulated article in 2014, Sama Banya, Sierra Leone's leading conservationist, called on President Ernest Bai Koroma to enforce the National Protected Area law, which his government enacted in 2012, by demolishing buildings constructed on protected land and planting trees to replace those that had been cut down.
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Jeremy and Patrick are explaining to me the difference between a mesa and a butte (a mesa is wider than it is tall, a butte taller than it is wide) and lamenting President Trump's decision to nearly halve the size of this protected land in order to sell it to mineral extractors.
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Given the Trump administration's recent actions — including lifting the moratorium on drilling on federal lands and the obligation to limit methane emissions on public lands — officials might be eyeing new fossil fuel leases on previously protected land, though Mr. Zinke said he was not predisposed to make any such recommendation about the monument land.
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The executive order attempts to clear away some of the other obstacles associated with building a massive structure across hundreds of miles of border; for example, it allows federal agents to access border land for security reasons, which could make it harder to sue the Trump administration for violating environmental regulations by building on protected land.
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Later, as others spoke calling attention to the land-use issue the Bundys were focusing on, people said they had become sympathetic to their cause — which touches on a long-standing controversy between the government, which owns vast amounts of protected land in the West, and locals who want to use it for grazing, mining and economic exploitation.
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Washington (CNN)A Chilean mining company whose owner has business ties to President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner was able to clear significant "roadblocks" in the early days of the Trump administration in order to reverse Obama-era restrictions that prevented it from mining near protected land in Minnesota, The New York Times reported Monday.
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But the one million acres of wilderness that would be protected by the bill stand in contrast to the administration's plans to open up for drilling nine million acres of protected habitat for the sage grouse, two million acres of protected land in Utah, parts of the vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and most United States coastal waters.
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Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE (R-Utah), who Curtis replaced after he resigned, was forced to withdraw a proposed bill that would have transferred millions of acres of protected land to state ownership.
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" Lucy Lippard, one of the foremost scholars of the environmental art movement, notes, "Earthworks play their part as the myth of the Old West gives way to the mundane real estate realities of the New West in a region where the land itself is more compelling than any museum; or, more pessimistically, where protected land and beauty strips are 'museumized' in a landscape marred by extraction and greed.
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