Hostilities are confined to a few barrios that comprise less than 1% of the total land area of Mindanao.

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Current estimates suggest that 43 % of the total land area in the Gambia is still covered by forests, 78 % of which are severely degraded.

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The catchment area is being increased by the creation of a pair of reservoirs, the first of which, due to be finished next year, will mean the rainfall-catchment acreage will extend to two-thirds of the island's total land area.

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This is because urban regions amount to less than 1% of total land area, according to the study.

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