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And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion
hectares
of grasslands, and almost nobody is talking about it.
We are already doing so on about 15 million
hectares
on five continents, and people who understand far more about carbon than I do calculate that, for illustrative purposes, if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people.
There's another one which suggests that 30 million
hectares
of land in Europe, an area the size of Poland, will be vacated by farmers between 2000 and 2030.
Now together, through our supply chain, with partners, we've managed to certify 35 million
hectares
of forestry.
To stop the killing of these animals, battalions of soldiers and rangers are sent to protect Nepal's national parks, but that is not an easy task, because these soldiers have to patrol thousands of
hectares
of forests on foot or elephant backs.
We have in the world about four billion
hectares
of forests.
Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one quarter is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the carbon.
We've actually lost two billion
hectares
in the last 2,000 years.
This is 2.7 million
hectares.
Fifty million
hectares
of protected areas were created, which is an area the size of Spain.
So if we compare it with the average deforestation that we had in the last decade, we saved 8.7 million hectares, which is the size of Austria.
In fact, if you think about the deforestation in the Amazon in 2013, that was over half a million hectares, which means that every minute, an area the size of two soccer fields is being cut in the Amazon last year, just last year.
Instead of having 100
hectares
to make oils or to make proteins, you can make it in these vats at 10 or 100 times the productivity per hectare.
This is an area of about 50 million
hectares.
We lost 5.5 million
hectares
in just a matter of a few months.
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.
We take care of about 200,000
hectares
of rainforest.
Nineteen million
hectares
of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.
And this particular place, the Medes Islands Marine Reserve, is only 94 hectares, and it brings 6 million euros to the local economy, 20 times more than fishing, and it represents 88 percent of all the tourist revenue.
Today, we have got 60 conservancies that manage and protect over 13 million
hectares
of land in Namibia.
Already, World Bank Group efforts have enabled one million
hectares
of indigenous land in Nicaragua – over 30% of the country’s territory – to be demarcated, titled, and registered, a process that has benefited some of the country’s most vulnerable groups.
But, at the same time, more than 16 million
hectares
of pastures and degraded land – an area half the size of Germany – have been abandoned in the Amazon alone, owing to poor agricultural practices and land use.
In the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra, which has the highest number of suicides, the area under Bt cotton has increased from 0.2 million
hectares
in 2004 to 2.88 million
hectares
in 2007.
Felling seven million
hectares
of trees each year, South America clears more forests than any other continent.
The Tianjing – boasting its own propulsion system and a capacity to extract sediment at a rate of 4,530 cubic meters (5,924 cubic yards) per hour – did its job very quickly, creating 11
hectares
of new land, including a harbor, in less than four months.
It has been several years since private investors and states began buying and leasing millions of
hectares
of farmland worldwide in order to secure their domestic supply of food, raw commodities, and biofuels, or to get subsidies for carbon storage through plantations.
Since 2006, between 15 and 20 million
hectares
of farmland, the equivalent of the total arable surface of France, have been the subject of negotiations by foreign investors.
Every year, 12 million
hectares
of land – an area the size of Austria and Switzerland – are lost to overuse and excessive application of fertilizers.
According to some estimates, Russia could increase its arable area by 10 million hectares, and its crop yields by 250%, thereby boosting grain exports dramatically.
The Congo basin represents the second largest mass of tropical forest in the world, with 220 million
hectares.
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