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It's 1.5
acres
of persimmon trees, this prolific blackberry bush that snakes around a community garden, all smack-dab, by the way, in the middle of urban Oakland.
It is estimated that the country lost 4.5 million
acres
of rainforest in one decade alone from 2000 until 2010.
In this case, we only used 15 of the 60
acres
of land, and the 45
acres
was a park and would become the legacy of the Olympic Village.
And that the building itself is occupied in the lower portion, broken up by a series of courts, and it's five
acres
of uninterrupted, horizontal space for their administrative offices.
They produce 60 to 80 percent of food in lower-income countries, often operating on fewer than five
acres.
It stretched from eastern Washington to western Montana, and it burned, in a few days, three million acres, devoured several towns, and it killed 87 people.
Thereafter, the Forest Service, just five years young at the time, was tasked with the responsibility of putting out all wildfires on 193 million
acres
of public lands, and they took this responsibility very seriously.
The first asking price for the property when we looked at it in 1998 was one billion dollars for 180
acres
and a couple of mines.
And a scheme emerged that Long Now is looking to see if it might be possible to buy up the whole valley, because those 10 ranches with their 17,000
acres
dominate a 500 square mile valley with their grazing allotments and so on, and there's a possibility that you could get the whole thing for five million dollars and gradually restore it to its wild condition, and somewhere in the process turn it back over to the National Park, and it would double the size of Great Basin National Park.
He let it go to seed, he took the seeds, he planted it on his 30 acres, all around.
We were surrounded by thousands of
acres
of cotton fields.
We were standing on the edge of thousands of
acres
of cotton.
And if you zoom in a bit you can see that all of this area is divided into strips that go over different types of soil, and we were actually monitoring, measuring every single tree in these 2,000 hectares, 5,000
acres.
So protecting one acre of mangroves may well be like protecting five or more
acres
of tropical forests.
In less than a decade, with international support, the state forest departments and the local communities worked together to restore over 20,000
acres
of unproductive fish and shrimp farms back into mangroves.
And once this path is constructed, it'll connect the South Bronx with more than 400
acres
of Randall's Island Park.
We have the opportunity now to bring together all the stakeholders to re-envision how this 28
acres
can be better utilized for parkland, affordable housing and local economic development.
The average small village farmer works on two
acres
or less.
For example, these fish predate on sea urchins, and when the fish were all gone, all anyone ever saw underwater was just
acres
and
acres
of sea urchins.
Now, it's no different than walking over
acres
of diamonds.
If Lise was to walk over
acres
of diamonds but there was no store, no bank, no way to use the diamonds, no way to exchange them, they'd be worthless, too.
Also, the movie goes on to assert that 5,000
acres
of Amazonian rainforest is disappearing every day.
It was a huge disaster which flattened thousands of
acres
of forest and wilderness.
Makdong's family used to own
acres
of farmland that are now covered in ugly apartment buildings and now they get by selling eggs to the residents.
Meanwhile, hundreds of
acres
of scarce urban real estate will have been forfeited as sites for white elephants.
With 111 Indian enclaves spread over 17,000
acres
in Bangladesh, and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves spread over 7,110
acres
in India, a settlement would involve a net transfer of some 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) of territory from India to its eastern neighbor.
A real estate housing project developer wanted to cut many
acres
of trees so he could build houses.
To meet global demand for 7.2 million metric tons of chocolate annually, multinationals like Hershey rely on millions of cocoa farmers, each of whom farms a tiny plot, often 1-2 hectares (2.5-5 acres).
The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.
Globally, an estimated two billion hectares (4.9 billion acres) of land has been deforested or degraded.
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