Traduction de «dévastation du terrain » (Français → Anglais) :

37. Urges the Commission to submit a legislative proposal prohibiting building on land cleared by fires proven to have resulted from arson;

14. Stresses that deforestation, particularly in the case of palm oil and soya beans, could lead to the devastation of the last remaining rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon region; emphasises that policies on strengthened and sustainable forest-management should be country-led and calls on the Commission to provide financial and technical assistance in this regard; stresses that assistance from the international community should take into account the opportunity costs of alternative uses of land, the costs of administering and enforcing protection and the challenges of managing the political transition as established interests are di ...[+++]splaced; stresses that, in order to avoid rural unemployment and rural-urban migration, complementary programmes to help identify new income sources are vital;

B. whereas according to conservative estimates, hundreds of villages – especially in the Peloponnese and Evia – have been evacuated, ruined or razed to the ground, 250 000 hectares of landscape have been consumed, countless hectares of olive groves and pine forest have been reduced to cinders and thousands of rural Greeks and entire regions are in fear of financial ruin,

Ten days of continuous rain brought on by Hurricane Stan caused flooding and landslides in the country where the soil was already saturated by the rainy season, causing destruction of dwellings, crops and infrastructure.

I would now like to give the floor to Stephen Law, my colleague, whose recent field experience can provide us with insight into the devastation and hope that coexist in another of Colombia's hard-hit regions, Urabá.