A few minutes' drive away, on a sliver of sand that forms the Lap An Lagoon on the central coast of Vietnam, lies a modest grove of trees – some evergreens that shed a path of soft needles, and where the land meets the sea, Lang Co's few remaining hectares of mangroves, perched above the water upon their stilted, flying buttress-like roots.
With over 1,100 species-level taxa of trees and shrubs documented in the first 25 hectares of Yasuní's CTFS plot [96], census of the remaining 25 hectares is projected to bring the total to over 1,300 species (≥1 cm dbh) [97].
St Modwen wants to develop the remaining 96 hectares as a "employment-led, mixed-use scheme", which is expected to include industrial, commercial, retail and housing use.
They hope their continued efforts of research and outreach will find pockets of like-minded partners who can help save the remaining 7,500 hectares of the Serra Bonita mountain range, critical habitat within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
The remaining 15percentt, some 550,000 hectares (1.4 million acres), remains open to logging, but will be placed under new, more stringent forestry regulations.
This would be timely: another 10% of Kenya's remaining forests, or 67,000 hectares (165,000 acres), is about to be parcelled out.Mr Moi's environment minister says that since the land is already occupied by squatters, the aim is to redefine the borders and prevent further encroachment.
Now the family's 10th and 11th generations - led by owner Eben Ostby and his nephew, the musician and farmer Bennett Konesni, are in the midst of giving away the remaining 243 acres (98 hectares) of the estate".
From 424,000 hectares left unfarmed in 2007, just 159,000 hectares remained a year later.
An estimated 15m hectares remain, less than half their original area.
Now managed by the RSPB, Abernethy's 4,000 hectares remain a thin window into ancient Britain.
In the eastern Great Plains, where prairie conversion to row crop agriculture has been most intense, mere hundreds of hectares remain (Samson and Knopf 1994).
