How can they claim it is a national survey when vast tracts of the western Highlands were not included?
A presentation compiled by Australians for Animals and sent to the environment minister warns that large numbers of dugongs are being stranded on beaches and that dredged spoil is wiping out vast tracts of seagrass.
Meanwhile, the property pages of Irish national newspapers were full of advertisements for investments in all kinds of exotic locations from Ukraine to Cape Verde, as Celtic Tiger man strolled the globe gobbling up vast tracts of land and housing developments.
In a matter of months, their dredgers and mercury kits can convert vast tracts of green forest into something resembling lunar wastelands.
Weavers' dwellings were overgrown, the thatch alive with birds, snakes and insects, while roussettes – bats small and multi-coloured as butterflies – flew in and out of earth-mounds that had been homes; hunched vultures surveyed tracts of land in which the human voice was stilled.
Malala, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, visited Nigeria in July, when she pledged to help free the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, the Islamist militants who control large tracts of territory in the north-east.
Grenada is an island for those whose biggest holiday challenge is reading long tracts of non-fiction that they couldn't quite start back home.
The government has been accused of misleading the UN in its bid to strip world heritage protection from tracts of Tasmanian forest, after the release of pictures purportedly showing that ecologically pristine areas will be delisted.
High-speed raila) "HS2 will blight thousands of homes and wreak irreparable environmental damage across large tracts of central England.
Mr Knowles is "not very keen" on a sell-off.Their mild dismay might seem insignificant, beside the nationwide rage provoked by the government's proposals to sell or lease large tracts of English woodland managed by the Forestry Commission, a public body.
Generals award themselves big tracts of land, in one case 300 square kilometres (115 square miles).
