They say that the area is environmentally damaged anyway, thanks to drainage and over-grazing, and that the new wind farms would have only a minor impact.

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But human factors have also played their part, with over-grazing, over-farming, misuse of irrigation and the unsustainable demands of a growing population all contributing to environmental degradation.

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This remains a very real concern, with much of the world suffering from increasing water scarcity, land erosion, drought intensity, stalled progress on crop productivity, declining groundwater aquifers, over-grazing of pasturelands, tropical deforestation, massive species extinction, over-fishing, and anthropogenic climate-change.

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Pacific Hydro already runs Australia's largest wind farm, a 35-turbine, 52-megawatt development that is spread over a number of grazing properties at Ararat in western Victoria.

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While the Golzernsee hike does not end with edibles, it does lead to a 6km hike over chalet-strewn meadows, where the clanging bells of grazing cows echo across valleys.

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About 70 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, Lenny and a bunch of friends snuck out of the house to go tip over some Hadrosaurs that were grazing in a field in modern-day Mongolia.

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Settled Pokomo farmers and semi-nomadic Orma pastoralists have clashed intermittently for years over access to grazing, farmland and water in the coastal region.

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And the best of times this is not: The ill effects of a years-long drought have been exacerbated by the tradition of grazing herd animals indiscriminately over a large region, so that topsoil never replenishes.

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The proposals were for the 21 turbines to be sited over around 3, 450 acres (1, 397 hectares) of crown-owned common land mainly used for sheep grazing about nine miles (15km) north east of Carmarthen.

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