| 31. | Most recently, as of the 1960s, cattle ranching has become the primary reason for land clearing.
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| 32. | Land clearing and development has allowed soil and various nutrients to be washed into the river.
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| 33. | Surveys and closer settlement by farmers soon followed, along with land clearing of the mallee woodland.
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| 34. | "There's obviously been a huge jump in the pace and scale of land clearing in Indonesia,"
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| 35. | All land clearing has been banned and harsh new penalties have been enacted again forest burners.
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| 36. | Abdul Halim said illegal settlements had also caused massive environmental degradation due to excessive land clearing.
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| 37. | Another consequence of land clearing is dryland salinity.
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| 38. | The haze is caused by slash-and-burn land clearing in the Indonesian provinces of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
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| 39. | Land clearing, terracing, mining and construction are all contributing to soil erosion and degraded water quality.
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| 40. | I guess they are doing land clearing again.
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