Another important factor behind Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for forced labor, which meant that most of the Costa Rican settlers had to work on their own land, preventing the establishment of large haciendas.

Geography-note: landlocked ; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe ; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe

poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage

Eritrea suffered from significant economic and social stress, including massive population displacement, reduced economic development, and one of Africa's more severe land mine problems.

Although forestry is not a significant economic activity in Eritrea, its forested area covers, or 13. 5 percent of the total land area.

Water and wind erosion are now the two primary causes of land degradation ; combined, they are responsible for 84 % of degraded acreage, making excessive erosion one of the most significant global environmental problems we face today.

A significant amount of land in Hong Kong, especially on the Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon peninsula, is reclaimed.

Hungary's most significant natural resource is arable land.

The function of air transport is significant, particularly where land or water transport is deficient or non-existent.

Even in recent years, the sale of the whole of or a significant portion of a farm in many European countries required consent from certain heirs, and / or heirs had the intervening right to obtain the land in question with same sales conditions as in the sales agreement in question.

The small amount of habitable land has prompted significant human modification of the terrain over many centuries.

Saladin attempted to besiege Beirut from land and sea, and Baldwin raided Damascene territory, but neither side did significant damage.

" Calls for reparation, coming many years after the displacement of these people from the land of their ancestors, have not yielded any significant benefits ," observes Basilwizi in its recent report.

They did not encounter any significant resistance save for some bridges destroyed and some land mines, since the majority of the Luxembourgish Volunteer Corps stayed in their barracks.

The land has been subject to significant deforestation since the 1990s, due to timber and firewood harvesting, drought, and clearing of farmland.

Nigeria is covered by three types of vegetation: forests ( where there is significant tree cover ), savannahs ( insignificant tree cover, with grasses and flowers located between trees ), and montane land.

The clearance of large tracts of land for crop growth has led to a significant reduction in the amount available of forestation and wetlands, resulting in the loss of habitat for many plant and animal species as well as increased erosion.

Although in fact it has a different organisation and a wholly civil mission, its training and activities over more than two decades as an anti-terrorist force have produced markedly military characteristics, giving it the appearance of a virtual fourth military service with significant land, sea and air capabilities and approximately 140, 000 personnel.

The end of the Paleocene ( 55. 5 / 54. 8 Mya ) was marked by one of the most significant periods of global change during the Cenozoic, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which upset oceanic and atmospheric circulation and led to the extinction of numerous deep-sea benthic foraminifera and on land, a major turnover in mammals.

The webbing is more significant on the front feet and is folded back when walking on land.

This restoration of agriculture was supported by credit policy of the government, helping both individual farmers and large privatized corporate farms, that once were Soviet kolkhozes and still own the significant share of agricultural land.

In either case it would require access to a significant amount of land to house the installation.

Throughout the 1790s, the British repeatedly defeated the navies of France and its allies, but were unable to perform any significant land operations.

The nature of the estate is fundamentally urban and none of the land is reserved for significant agriculture or other exploitation of natural resources.

Slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colony's early politics and plantation economy.

Developing countries are a high priority for the IMU and a significant percentage of their budget, including grants received from individuals, mathematical societies, foundations, and funding agencies, is spent on activities for developing countries.

The president has also overseen a reduction of Kenya's dependence on aid by western donors ( which still remains significant though ), with the country being increasingly funded by internally generated resources, tax revenue collection having grown tremendously during his term, and also by increasing investment, grants and loans by non-western countries, mainly Japan, People's Republic of China and the Middle East, and to a lessor extent investment by South African, Libyan and Nigerian corporations, and even Iran.

Students applying to the school are evaluated independently of their financial situations, the college meets 100 % of demonstrated financial need, and the college replaces loans with grants for all students on financial aid to lift the burden of significant student debt upon graduation.

In England, the Statute of Uses ( 1536 ) and the Statute of Wills ( 1540 ) and the consequent rise of flexible future interests made the rule a significant judicial tool in defeating the intent of landowners in grants and devises.

In addition, the foundation has provided significant and often substantial research grants to finance conferences and assist with published studies, as well as funding departments and programs, to a vast range of foreign policy and educational organizations, including:

With the decline of the mines, the area has undergone a period of significant change, ameliorated to some extent by a shift to high technology, with companies establishing themselves in the area, attracted by grants and a willing workforce.

Members of the research grants committee of the National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ), which had been founded in 1949, contend that they also helped provide an impetus for the new institute, as when reviewing grant applications they saw a significant number of neurological projects and proposed a separate institute for them.

As a republic with a presidential Executive, Brazil grants significant powers to the President.

Japan is a significant aid provider in the form of grants and technical cooperation, including donating the 50-meter vessel, the Manu Folau.

Critical to the development and financing of the railroad was the acquisition of significant land grants.

Large land grants were provided to the Northern Pacific, including a significant part of the coast of Commencement Bay.

The CBRL's main sponsor is the British Academy, but significant contributions are made by membership subscriptions, sale of publications, other grants, and revenue generated by the services provided.

LUMS also invests considerable resources in its faculty research and significant research grants are provided to the faculty for their research.

Both NJOP and AJOP were initially funded by significant grants from the AVI CHAI Foundation, a Jewish philanthropy established by Sanford Bernstein, a financial investor who had himself become a Baal teshuva ( a returnee to traditional Orthodox observance ) and sought to further the cause of education and outreach to alienated and assimilated Jews worldwide.

GMD built units for export, a significant amount of business supported by government grants to foreign countries.

The Foundation provides competitive, one-year grants to working journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for The APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation.

The Foundation's views on the connections between religious and scientific inquiry and their ability to provide significant grants for scientific research has led to quite polarising debate within the scientific community.

He was chairman of The Ireland Funds in Ireland, the Irish branch of a major charitable group with worldwide contributors, which has made significant grants to groups dealing with social and business problems in Ireland.

Prominent educational institutions that have received significant grants from the foundation are:

It is a significant source of research support, independent of federal grants.

After it was reported that Sievey had died virtually penniless and was facing a " pauper's funeral " provided by state grants, a grassroots movement on various social networking websites quickly rallied round and donated significant sums to help out with the costs, raising £ 6, 500 in a matter of hours.

Films preserved through NFPF grants range from silent-era films to industrials, documentaries, newsreels, culturally significant home movies, avant-garde works, and independent productions.

CWBPP is designed to promote the preservation of significant Civil War battlefields by offering competitive matching grants for qualifying preservation opportunities.

The most significant change in funding recommended by the report is a shift from undergraduate tuition being funded entirely by grants from the government to a mixed system in which tuition fees, supported by low interest government loans, are raised.