clipped from www.chinadaily.com.cn China's desertification acreage had shrunk by 37,900 square kilometers from 2000 about 20 percent of desertification areas in the country had so far been China had a desertification acreage of 2.6 million square kilometers with 400 the government had made great efforts to convert the deserts into forestry and The 10-year project aimed to help conserve wetlands, restore grassland, control
Farmers plant grass to stabilise sand dunes at the edge of the Mu Us Desert in |
Friday, January 25, 2008
20080124 China's deserts shrinks, erosion risk lingers
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