61.   If the canal had been excavated the Boro crop on vast tracts of land would not have been inundated, he added .

62.   In recent years, Vietnam has started making efforts to protect its forests, but only after vast tracts have been devastated.

63.   In the neighboring Indian state of Assam, incessant rains submerged vast tracts of the state, officials said.

64.   It is surrounded on the north, west and south by vast tracts of pines, grown by timber companies.

65.   Just how bad is the double-impact of massive floods and the desert-like conditions in which they left vast tracts of farmland?

66.   Leftist rebels control vast tracts of southern jungle, financing their insurgency by taxing peasants who grow drug crops and protecting drug traffickers.

67.   Like all large raptors, the Philippine Monkey-eating Eagle needs vast tracts of dense forest in which to hunt.

68.   Meanwhile, vast tracts of land elsewhere remain under water and thousands of people are unable to return home.

69.   Oetomo said Irian Jaya was potentially a good area to develop a timber industry because it had a vast tracts of forest.

70.   On Friday she signed a historic compensation deal and formal apology to a group of tribes who lost vast tracts of land to British settlers last century.